Zaha Hadid

"Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, established female architects all the time."

"I am equally proud of all of my architectural projects. It's always rewarding to see an ambitious design become reality."

"Of course I believe imaginative architecture can make a difference to people's lives, but I wish it was possible to divert some of the effort we put into ambitious museums and galleries into the basic architectural building blocks of society."