About Zaha Hadid: Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid is an Iraqi-British architect. In 2004 she became the first woman recipient of the Pritzker Architecture Prize and received the Stirling Prize in 2010 and 2011.
The funkiest housing in Holland is for low-income, and I think that's very nice.
My father was a socialist, so he would have thought that I shouldn't be a dame.
I find industrial cities exciting. I like their toughness.
I was always unusual-looking; I wouldn't say beautiful.
When I first came to Guangzhou in 1981, it seemed such a hard and dour place with everyone in Chairman Mao uniforms.
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.
What's similar between Britain and America is the lack of good-quality civic buildings.
I have been interested in fashion since I was a kid. Then I lived in London, where it was more about costume and a personal statement of who you are than about fashion.
I made a decision when I was in school that I'd have a lot of male friends.
I don't particularly like showing furniture on pedestals, but for whatever reasons you always have to in museums.
My father was a politician, and a very important politician, and one of the leaders of the Iraqi Democratic Party, who believed in progress.
I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
My generation were all careerists.
I will always have two regrets. I don't have a presence in London, and I would have liked to have done more work in the Middle East.
I used to not like being called a 'woman architect': I'm an architect, not just a woman architect. Guys used to tap me on the head and say, 'You are okay for a girl.' But I see the incredible amount of need from other women for reassurance that it co...
Women are always told, 'You're not going to make it, its too difficult, you can't do that, don't enter this competition, you'll never win it,' - they need confidence in themselves and people around them to help them to get on.
