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All the privileged can travel, see different worlds, not everyone can. I think it is important for people to have an interesting locale nearby.

Zaha Hadid

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Zaha Hadid
Age: 65 †
Born: 1950
Born: October 31
Died: 2016
Died: March 31
Architect
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Bagdad
Zaha Mohammad Hadid
Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid
Zaha M. Hadid
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People say I design architectural icons. If I design a building and it becomes an icon, that's ok.
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The conservative values that are emerging, it may not effect architecture immediately but it will effect society and that's what worries me.
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I find industrial cities exciting. I like their toughness.
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As a woman, I'm expected to want everything to be nice and to be nice myself. A very English thing. I don't design nice buildings - I don't like them. I like architecture to have some raw, vital, earthy quality.
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Architecture is really about well-being. I think that people want to feel good in a space ... On the one hand it's about shelter, but it's also about pleasure.
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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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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.
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If I'm in london it can be different than if I'm somewhere else.
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I am eccentric, I admit it, but I am not a nutcase.
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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.
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You have to be very focused and work very hard, but it is not about working hard without knowing what your aim is!
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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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For a woman to go out alone into architecture is still very, very hard. It's still a man's world.
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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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The spirit of adventure to embrace the new and the incredible belief in the power of invention attracted me to the Russian avant-garde.
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