140 Quotes by Zaha Hadid

Being Iraqi taught me to be very cautious.

In Iraq, many of my female friends were architects and professionals with a lot of power during the 1980s while all the men were at war in Iran.

I was always unusual-looking; I wouldn't say beautiful.

My buildings are not particularly expensive. It is not a tin shed. If you want a tinny car, you pay for that.

People in power, they're so used to people kind of playing up to them.

The funkiest housing in Holland is for low-income, and I think that's very nice.

What's similar between Britain and America is the lack of good-quality civic buildings.

When I taught, all my best students were women.

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.