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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.

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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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Wild
London
Exciting
Loved

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As a woman you're not accessible to every world.
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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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Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.
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Architecture is like writing. You have to edit it over and over so it looks effortless
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A brilliant design will always benefit from the input of others.
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Life in the Middle East is quite different from other places.
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You have to really believe not only in yourself you have to believe that the world is actually worth your sacrifices.
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From my first days studying architecture at the architectural association, I have always been interested in the concept of fragmentation and with ideas of abstraction and explosion, where we were de-constructing ideas of repetitiveness and mass production.
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Yes, I'm a feminist, because I see all women as smart, gifted and tough.
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I love driving around east London - it's always full of surprises. Actually, I don't drive myself - I like to be driven.
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It's very important for cities all around the world to reinvent themselves, and Glasgow is a good example of that. The Scots are very nice. I don't think they are burdened by their history.
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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 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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The paintings have only ever been ways of exploring architecture. I don't see them as art.
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There is a strong reciprocal relationship whereby our more ambitious design visions encourage the continuing development of the new digital technologies and fabrication techniques, and those new developments in turn inspire us to push the design envelope ever further.
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