Zaha Hadid
Zaha Hadid
Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid, DBEwas an Iraqi-born British architect. She was the first Arab woman who received the Pritzker Architecture Prize, winning it in 2004. She received the Stirling Prize in 2010 and 2011. In 2012, she was created a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire and in 2015 she became the first woman to be awarded the RIBA Gold Medal in her own right...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionArchitect
Date of Birth31 October 1950
CityBaghdad, Iraq
looks architecture architect
It's not my duty as an architect to look at it
art way architecture
The paintings have only ever been ways of exploring architecture. I don't see them as art.
architecture tough difficult
Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.
men world architecture
For a woman to go out alone into architecture is still very, very hard. It's still a man's world.
today architecture building
It is insufficient for architecture today to directly implement an existing building typology; it instead requires architects to carefully examine the whole area with new interventions and programmatic typologies
fashion space architecture
Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person.
dream thinking architecture
I think about architecture all the time. That's the problem. But I've always been like that. I dream it sometimes.
writing looks architecture
Architecture is like writing. You have to edit it over and over so it looks effortless
sticks degrees architecture
There are 360 degrees, so why stick to one?
brothers family helped office oil people seem
Of course, my family helped me, my brothers helped me, but after I set up my own office I had to really help myself. Some people seem to think I had an oil well in my garden! It's a nice idea but not true.
areas good people pushed
I think it's good if areas get upgraded and gentrified, as long as the people who always lived there can stay. But they get pushed out to some place.
accessible city open people political
If you think about making a city that is much more porous, many accessible spaces, that is a political position, because you don't fortify, you open it up so that many people can use it.
people power
People in power, they're so used to people kind of playing up to them.
car tin
My buildings are not particularly expensive. It is not a tin shed. If you want a tinny car, you pay for that.