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

Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person.

— Zaha Hadid

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 is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.

— Zaha Hadid

As a woman, I'm expected to want everything to be nice and to be nice myself. A very English thing. I don't design nice buildings - I don't like them. I like architecture to have some raw, vital, earthy quality.

— Zaha Hadid

Education, housing and hospitals are the most important things for society.

— Zaha Hadid

Good education is so important. We do need to look at the way people are taught. It is not just about qualifications to get a job. It's about being educated.

— Zaha Hadid

Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, established female architects all the time.

— Zaha Hadid

I am equally proud of all of my architectural projects. It's always rewarding to see an ambitious design become reality.

— Zaha Hadid

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