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I always thought I was powerful, since I was a kid.

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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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A brilliant design will always benefit from the input of others.
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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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One has to strive for a very open liberal society.
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I think about architecture all the time. That's the problem. But I've always been like that. I dream it sometimes.
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I really believe in the idea of the future.
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Life in the Middle East is quite different from other places.
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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 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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People say I design architectural icons. If I design a building and it becomes an icon, that's ok.
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Different projects give you satisfaction in different ways.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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