Zaha Hadid Quotes

With everything that I design, from a church to a plate to skyscraper to a spoon. I am always thinking about voluptuous volumes and spaces.

The design of a dress, furniture, a house, a room, a street and a city are all the same process.

There's a very important aspect to all my work, now more than ever, which is tying the interior design and architecture with the art.

I want to do interiors, furniture. I want to do architecture, although I'm not an architect. Nor am I a trained interior designer.

Architecture begins where engineering ends.

In architecture and interiors, as well as fashion, there is an interaction that is both functional and aesthetic.

That was always my frustration with so many of these shows, because design is not an ambush... it's a relationship. You have to know how people move and live and work to be able to design for them.

In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function.

Building design isn't trendy.

Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long.

I don't particularly follow the Bauhaus school of design, where you make everything into a black box - simplify it.

The only thing Martha and I have in common is that we both used to model. Martha Stewart is extremely talented. Her designs are picture perfect. Our philosophy is life is messy, and rather than being afraid of those messes we design products that work the way we live.

I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one.

I'm fascinated by furniture design and interiors, and I want to try designing all that stuff.

I love building spaces: architecture, furniture, all of it, probably more than fashion. The development procedure is more tactile. It's about space and form and it's something you can share with other people.

Outside of the chair, the teapot is the most ubiquitous and important design element in the domestic environment and almost everyone who has tackled the world of design has ended up designing one.

First and foremost, I'm a decorator and product designer. Everything I do, the television shows, the books, that comes from the design work. It's what I love.

In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.

I don't build because I am an architect. I can make true architecture because I do not build.

All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.

Architecture depends on facts, but its real field of activity lies in the realm of the significance.

A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.

Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all.

The details are not the details. They make the design.

I'm drawn to furniture design as complete architecture on a minor scale.