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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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Zaha Hadid
Age: 65 †
Born: 1950
Born: October 31
Died: 2016
Died: March 31
Architect
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Jewelry Designer
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University Teacher
Bagdad
Zaha Mohammad Hadid
Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid
Zaha M. Hadid
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Architecture is like writing. You have to edit it over and over so it looks effortless
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I find industrial cities exciting. I like their toughness.
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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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No. I don't have the patience, and I'm not very tactful. People say I can be frightening.
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For many years, I hated nature. As a student, I refused to put a plant anywhere - a living plant, that is. Dead plants were OK.
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Would they call me a diva if I were a guy?
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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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Life in the Middle East is quite different from other places.
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One has to strive for a very open liberal society.
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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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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.
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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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Education, housing and hospitals are the most important things for society.
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Malevitch discovered abstraction as an experimental principle that can propel creative work to previously unheard levels of invention this abstract work allowed much greater levels of creativity.
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The world is looking more and more segmented, the difference between people is becoming greater.
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There are so many great galleries and museums in London, but they can be very crowded during the day.
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I am eccentric, I admit it, but I am not a nutcase.
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Being Iraqi taught me to be very cautious.
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