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Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, established female architects all the time.

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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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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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Obviously for some people there is a big connection between music and the way you can create a space.
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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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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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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 don't particularly like showing furniture on pedestals, but for whatever reasons you always have to in museums.
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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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Different projects give you satisfaction in different ways.
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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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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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One has to strive for a very open liberal society.
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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 have been interested in fashion since I was a kid. Then I lived in London, where it was more about costume and a personal statement of who you are than about fashion.
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