Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person. -Zaha Hadid Space
Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, established female architects all the time. -Zaha Hadid Architecture
Obviously for some people there is a big connection between music and the way you can create a space. -Zaha Hadid Music
In Iraq, many of my female friends were architects and professionals with a lot of power during the 1980s while all the men were at war in Iran. -Zaha Hadid War
I really love Miami, but I don't think the architecture matches the city. It's a bit too commercial. -Zaha Hadid Architecture
Good education is so important. We do need to look at the way people are taught. It not just about qualifications to get a job. It's about being educated. -Zaha Hadid Education
Architecture is particularly difficult for women; there's no reason for it to be. I don't want to blame men or society, but I think it was for a long time, the clients were men, the building industry is all male. -Zaha Hadid Society
Of course I believe imaginative architecture can make a difference to people's lives, but I wish it was possible to divert some of the effort we put into ambitious museums and galleries into the basic architectural building blocks of society. -Zaha Hadid Society
Obviously for some people there is a big connection between music and the way you can create a space. -Zaha Hadid Space
I don't think that architecture is only about shelter, is only about a very simple enclosure. It should be able to excite you, to calm you, to make you think. -Zaha Hadid Architecture
All the privileged can travel, see different worlds; not everyone can. I think it is important for people to have an interesting locale nearby. -Zaha Hadid Travel
Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person. -Zaha Hadid Architecture
I think about architecture all the time. That's the problem. But I've always been like that. I dream it sometimes. -Zaha Hadid Architecture
Architecture is particularly difficult for women; there's no reason for it to be. I don't want to blame men or society, but I think it was for a long time, the clients were men, the building industry is all male. -Zaha Hadid Architecture
Of course I believe imaginative architecture can make a difference to people's lives, but I wish it was possible to divert some of the effort we put into ambitious museums and galleries into the basic architectural building blocks of society. -Zaha Hadid Architecture
I've always thought that design can have equal importance to the idea of internal architecture. Professionally, things can be very dogmatic - you do the architecture, someone else does the interiors, someone else does the furniture, the fabric, etc. But I think design is all-encompassing. -Zaha Hadid Architecture
