Top 78 Quotes by Zaha Hadid

Education, housing and hospitals are the most important things for society.

I think that the training of architects allows you to see what will happen ten years ahead of time, or twenty. It's not guessing, it's not intuitive, it's based on research - and we may be wrong.

Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.

My father was a politician, and a very important politician, and one of the leaders of the Iraqi Democratic Party, who believed in progress.

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.

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.

Being Iraqi taught me to be very cautious.

There are so many great galleries and museums in London, but they can be very crowded during the day.

People say I design architectural icons. If I design a building and it becomes an icon, that's ok.

I think it's good if areas get upgraded and gentrified, as long as the people who always lived there can stay. But they get pushed out to some place.