If I wanted to do clothes or if I wanted to make a building or design a choreography, you are able to do that - they are all under a similar kind of design umbrella.

— Zaha Hadid

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.

— Zaha Hadid

I really believe in the idea of the future.

— Zaha Hadid

I really love Miami, but I don't think the architecture matches the city. It's a bit too commercial.

— Zaha Hadid

I think about architecture all the time. That's the problem. But I've always been like that. I dream it sometimes.

— Zaha Hadid

It's very important that historic cities are allowed to reinvent their future.

— Zaha Hadid

I've always thought that design can have equal importance to the idea of internal architecture. Professionally, things can be very dogmatic - you do the architecture, someone else does the interiors, someone else does the furniture, the fabric, etc. But I think design is all-encompassing.

— Zaha Hadid

Obviously for some people there is a big connection between music and the way you can create a space.

— Zaha Hadid

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.

— Zaha Hadid

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

— Zaha Hadid