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
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.
connection music obviously people
Obviously for some people there is a big connection between music and the way you can create a space.
people
I'm a pushover. I make allowances for people if I like them.
people
I don't think I am that tough, actually. Well, tough in the sense that I don't take any rubbish, and that doesn't make me very popular, frankly. I mean, because some people say something to me, and I just tell them off. I mean, why should I put up with it?
people able should
In hospital, people should be able to have time to themselves.
space people connections
Obviously for some people there is a big connection between music and the way you can create a space.
thinking people way
People don't talk to you properly. It's the way they talk to you; they dismiss you. I think it's a combination of me being a woman and a foreigner.
teaching people frightening
No. I don't have the patience, and I'm not very tactful. People say I can be frightening.
icons people design
People say I design architectural icons. If I design a building and it becomes an icon, that's ok.
thinking interesting people
All the privileged can travel, see different worlds; not everyone can. I think it is important for people to have an interesting locale nearby.
jobs people important
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.