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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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Zaha Hadid
Age: 65 †
Born: 1950
Born: October 31
Died: 2016
Died: March 31
Architect
Artist
Designer
Jewelry Designer
Painter
Sculptor
University Teacher
Bagdad
Zaha Mohammad Hadid
Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid
Zaha M. Hadid
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In terms of form, all the projects interest me equally, although there are obviously large differences according to the scale and process of each project.
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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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When I taught, all my best students were women.
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Good education is so important. We do need to look at the way people are taught. It not just about qualifications to get a job. It's about being educated.
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When you are overworked and exhausted, there is a sense of kind of delirium and that's why I think architects do all-nighters and they kind of do those deadlines. For four days I remember doing four nights in one row with no sleep. I mean nobody, unless you are crazy, would do that, but you are totally focused on the project.
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I made a decision when I was in school that I'd have a lot of male friends.
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Yes, I'm a feminist, because I see all women as smart, gifted and tough.
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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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Architecture is like writing. You have to edit it over and over so it looks effortless
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Indeed, our designs become more ambitious as we see the new possibilities created by the technology of other industries.
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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 will always have two regrets. I don't have a presence in London, and I would have liked to have done more work in the Middle East.
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I am eccentric, I admit it, but I am not a nutcase.
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I used to not like being called a 'woman architect.' I'm an architect, not just a woman architect. The guys used to tap me on the head and say 'you're OK for a girl.' But I see an incredible amount of need from other women for reassurance that it can be done, so I don't mind anymore.
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People often ask me if I consider myself to be an architect, fashion designer, or artist. I'm an architect. The paintings I've done are very important to me, but they were part of a process of thinking and developing.
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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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Of course there is a lot of fluidity now between art, architecture and fashion - a lot more cross-pollination in the disciplines, but this isn't about competition, it's about collaboration and what these practices and processes can contribute to one another.
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