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Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, established female architects all the time.
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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Jewelry Designer
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Sculptor
University Teacher
Bagdad
Zaha Mohammad Hadid
Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid
Zaha M. Hadid
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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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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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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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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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With products the form is almost the finished piece, but with architecture it is not.
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You don't always have to show art in what's called a white box you can have a kind of complexity within an exhibit which actually respects the art as well.
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I am quite sensitive to politics, because you know, as an Arab, an Iraqi, all your life, you are very conscious of it.
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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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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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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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The current state of architecture and design requires extensive collaboration and an investigative attitude and we continue to research and develop new technologies.
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Being Iraqi taught me to be very cautious.
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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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Some people really live and work within the same doctrine, the same diagram with the same logic.
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I am equally proud of all of my architectural projects. It's always rewarding to see an ambitious design become reality.
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I really believe in the idea of the future.
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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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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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