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.
From Zaha Hadid
Would they call me a diva if I were a guy?
Society has not been set up in a way that allows women to go back to work after taking time off. Many women now have to work as well as do everything at home and no one can do everything. Society needs to find a way of relieving women.
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.
I'm into fashion because it contains the mood of the day, of the moment - like music, literature, and art.
I really believe in the idea of the future.
When I taught, all my best students were women.
You don't always have to show art in what's called a white box; you can have a kind of complexity within an exhibit which actually respects the art as well.
I can't focus when there's too many things around. Whenever I used to go to the office, I used to always say, 'Tidy up.'
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.
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