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People don't talk to you properly. It's the way they talk to you they dismiss you. I think it's a combination of me being a woman and a foreigner.

Zaha Hadid

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Zaha Hadid
Age: 65 †
Born: 1950
Born: October 31
Died: 2016
Died: March 31
Architect
Artist
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Jewelry Designer
Painter
Sculptor
University Teacher
Bagdad
Zaha Mohammad Hadid
Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid
Zaha M. Hadid
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I miss aspects of being in the Arab world - the language - and there is a tranquility in these cities with great rivers. Whether it's Cairo or Baghdad, you sit there and you think, 'This river has flown here for thousands of years.' There are magical moments in these places.
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It would be very interesting to design objects for everyday life, something where the ideas that are expressed can be launched into society.
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My work first engaged with the early russian avant-garde the paintings of moholy-nagy, el lissitzky's 'prouns' and naum gabo's sculptures, but in particular with the work of kasimir malevitch - he was an early influence for me as a representative of the modern avant-garde intersection between art and design.
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I really love Miami, but I don't think the architecture matches the city. It's a bit too commercial.
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I don't like the masculine style, jeans. I like issey miyake... and black dresses.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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Obviously for some people there is a big connection between music and the way you can create a space.
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I really believe in the idea of the future.
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My father was a politician, and a very important politician, and one of the leaders of the Iraqi Democratic Party, who believed in progress.
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You really have to have a goal.
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When I first came to Guangzhou in 1981, it seemed such a hard and dour place with everyone in Chairman Mao uniforms.
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I find industrial cities exciting. I like their toughness.
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It's not my duty as an architect to look at it.
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I don't think people should do things because you know, 'I am turning this age, I must go have a husband.' If you find somebody and it works out then have kids, it's very nice. But if you don't, you don't.
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You really have to have a goal. The goal posts might shift, but you should have a goal. Know what it is you want to find out.
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Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person.
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There are some very similar moments in the early work where the focus was on drawing, abstraction and fragmentation. Then it moved to the development of ideas. Lately it has become what architecture should be, which is more fluid organization. There has not been so much 'a change' but 'a development'.
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I love driving around east London - it's always full of surprises. Actually, I don't drive myself - I like to be driven.
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I don't think that architecture is only about shelter, is only about a very simple enclosure. It should be able to excite you, to calm you, to make you think.
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I don't think that everybody in the planet should have a child. I've never had the desire I should have a kid.
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