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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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London
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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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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 find industrial cities exciting. I like their toughness.
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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 how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person.
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Architecture is like writing. You have to edit it over and over so it looks effortless
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When I taught, all my best students were women.
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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 have to really believe not only in yourself you have to believe that the world is actually worth your sacrifices.
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I always thought I was powerful, since I was a kid.
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Architecture is particularly difficult for women there's no reason for it to be. I don't want to blame men or society, but I think it was for a long time, the clients were men, the building industry is all male.
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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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In Iraq, many of my female friends were architects and professionals with a lot of power during the 1980s while all the men were at war in Iran.
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All the privileged can travel, see different worlds, not everyone can. I think it is important for people to have an interesting locale nearby.
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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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