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?
design similar
If I wanted to do clothes or if I wanted to make a building or design a choreography, you are able to do that - they are all under a similar kind of design umbrella.
I will never give myself the luxury of thinking, 'I've made it.'
What's nice about concrete is that it looks unfinished.
diligent men women work
Like men, women have to be diligent and work hard.
art contains moment mood music
I'm into fashion because it contains the mood of the day, of the moment - like music, literature, and art.