Zaha Hadid
From my first days studying architecture at the architectural association, I have always been interested in the concept of fragmentation and with ideas of abstraction and explosion, where we were de-constructing ideas of repetitiveness and mass production.Collection: Ideas
I don't use the computer. I do sketches, very quickly, often more than 100 on the same formal research.Collection: Use
When women do succeed, the press, even the industry press, spend far too much time talking about how we dress, what shoes we're wearing, who we're meant to be seeing. That's pretty sad for women, especially when it's written by women who really should know better.Collection: Success
For a woman to go out alone into architecture is still very, very hard. It's still a man's world.Collection: Men
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 typologiesCollection: Today
The current state of architecture and design requires extensive collaboration and an investigative attitude and we continue to research and develop new technologies.Collection: Attitude
Two years ago I focused on one apartment to see how many variations you can come up with in a given space with the same parameters. I would work on this repeatedly for days and you see that there is maybe seven hundred options for one space. This exercise gives you an idea of the degree at which you can interpret the organization of space, it is not infinite but it's very large.Collection: Exercise
My work first engaged with the early russian avant-garde; the paintings of moholy-nagy, el lissitzky's 'prouns' and naum gabo's sculptures, but in particular with the work of kasimir malevitch - he was an early influence for me as a representative of the modern avant-garde intersection between art and design.Collection: Art
The world is looking more and more segmented, the difference between people is becoming greater.Collection: Differences
I don't like the masculine style, jeans. I like issey miyake... and black dresses.Collection: Jeans
With products the form is almost the finished piece, but with architecture it is not.Collection: Pieces