People don't talk to you properly. It's the way they talk to you; they dismiss you. I think it's a combination of me being a woman and a foreigner.
Zaha HadidRead
Architecture is really about well-being. I think that people want to feel good in a space ... On the one hand it's about shelter, but it's also about pleasure.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Architecture combines functionality and aesthetics to enhance well-being.
Zaha Hadid emphasizes that architecture serves not only as a physical shelter but also plays a crucial role in eliciting emotional responses and fostering a sense of well-being. This highlights the importance of designing spaces that are both functional and pleasurable, creating environments where people can thrive and feel comfortable.
Themes
ArchitectureWell-BeingSpaceShelterPleasure
In practice
Example use cases
This quote can be used in a discussion about the importance of thoughtful architecture in urban planning.
More from Zaha Hadid
All quotes βI don't think people should do things because you know, 'I am turning this age, I must go have a husband.' If you find somebody and it works out then have kids, it's very nice. But if you don't, you don't.
Zaha HadidRead
It is insufficient for architecture today to directly implement an existing building typology; it instead requires architects to carefully examine the whole area with new interventions and programmatic typologies
Zaha HadidRead
It's very important that historic cities are allowed to reinvent their future.
Zaha HadidRead
You have to really believe not only in yourself; you have to believe that the world is actually worth your sacrifices.
Zaha HadidRead
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.
Zaha HadidRead
Similar quotes
When I go to Comic-Cons and people line up for autographs, so many people have a story about how they are moved, how they get tearful about what 'Back To The Future' meant to them.
Christopher LloydRead
When you create those characters that people love and care about and put them in a dark hallway, already the audience is on edge, and they feel empathy for that character. Then it's up to me to decide what jumps out in that hallway. So I think laying that foundation of strong characters and strong story is the most important thing in a horror film.
James WanRead
The best thing about writing has been the writer's life, the sense of being expressed, the ownership of the day, the entirely specious sense of freedom we have, however slave we are to some boss or other. I wouldn't trade it for any other life.
Anthony MinghellaRead
The greatest art in the world is the art of storytelling.
Cecil B. DemilleRead
The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burnt on the water.
William ShakespeareRead
Writing is simply something you must do. It's rather like virtue in that it is its own reward.
Harper LeeRead