“Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, establ...” — Zaha Hadid Quote

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

I will never give myself the luxury of thinking, 'I've made it.'

The funkiest housing in Holland is for low-income, and I think that's very nice.

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.

Would they call me a diva if I were a guy?

Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture.

The ultimate pleasure of architecture lies in the most forbidden parts of the architectural act, where limits are perverted and prohibitions are transgressed.

Architecture is always political.

In effect, the Internet is a global connection of interconnected computers. It has been described as truly a peer-to-peer system with many distributed nodes and no central point of control architecture.

The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite.