Quotes About Zaha Hadid

I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.

Zaha Hadid's Maxxi Museum is proof that Rome and contemporary architecture are no longer a paradox. The building is characteristic Hadid - with curving lines and organic shapes - and the permanent collection already boasts works by Francesco Clemente, William Kentridge, and Gerhard Richter.

I really love Miami, but I don't think the architecture matches the city. It's a bit too commercial.

The spirit of adventure to embrace the new and the incredible belief in the power of invention attracted me to the Russian avant-garde.

My father was a socialist, so he would have thought that I shouldn't be a dame.

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.

For many years, I hated nature. As a student, I refused to put a plant anywhere - a living plant, that is. Dead plants were OK.