As a woman, I'm expected to want everything to be nice and to be nice myself. A very English thing. I don't design nice buildings - I don't like them. I like architecture to have some raw, vital, earthy quality.

  • -- Zaha Hadid 扎哈·哈迪德

作为一个女人,我希望一切都好,自己也要好。非常英式的东西。我不设计漂亮的建筑——我不喜欢它们。我喜欢建筑有一些原始的、重要的、朴实的特质。

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Without my husband's costumes I wouldn't have known how to accomplish what I saw in my own mind's eyes for choreography. And then seeing our choreography and knowing the background of it I am sure helped my husband a great deal with what he designed for us.

没有我丈夫的戏服,我不知道如何完成我在自己脑海中看到的编舞。然后看了我们的舞蹈编排,了解了它的背景,我肯定对我丈夫为我们设计的东西帮助很大。

For many years, I have lived uncomfortably with the belief that most planning and architectural design suffers for lack of real and basic purpose. The ultimate purpose, it seems to me, must be the improvement of mankind.

多年来,我一直生活在不舒服的信念,大多数规划和建筑设计遭受缺乏真实和基本的目的。在我看来,最终的目的必须是改善人类。

When I go to a premiere I like to borrow lovely clothes and shoes from designers. It's like the library: if you return them in good condition, you get to borrow more. I'm very lucky.

当我去参加首映式时,我喜欢向设计师借可爱的衣服和鞋子。这就像图书馆:如果你完好无损地归还它们,你就能借到更多。我很幸运。

An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.

建筑师最有用的工具是画板上的橡皮擦和工地上的破坏杆。