Zaha hadid

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.

When I first came to Guangzhou in 1981, it seemed such a hard and dour place with everyone in Chairman Mao uniforms.

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.

Architecture is particularly difficult for women; there's no reason for it to be. I don't want to blame men or society, but I think it was for a long time, the clients were men, the building industry...

I have been interested in fashion since I was a kid. Then I lived in London, where it was more about costume and a personal statement of who you are than about fashion.

In hospital, people should be able to have time to themselves.

When I taught, all my best students were women.

I like music. Country, hip-hop, R&B, sometimes classical.

The commission process in America and England is different. In America, they do it through an interview process, and it's really based on whether they like you or not. I mean, it's nothing to do with...

Men think a woman should not have an opinion.