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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
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Loved

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Of course I believe imaginative architecture can make a difference to people's lives, but I wish it was possible to divert some of the effort we put into ambitious museums and galleries into the basic architectural building blocks of society.
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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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One has to strive for a very open liberal society.
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I've always thought that design can have equal importance to the idea of internal architecture. Professionally, things can be very dogmatic - you do the architecture, someone else does the interiors, someone else does the furniture, the fabric, etc. But I think design is all-encompassing.
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As a woman you're not accessible to every world.
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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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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 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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Obviously for some people there is a big connection between music and the way you can create a space.
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I don't think that everybody in the planet should have a child. I've never had the desire I should have a kid.
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Education, housing and hospitals are the most important things for society.
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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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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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Yes, I'm a feminist, because I see all women as smart, gifted and tough.
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The commission process in America and England is different. In America, they do it through an interview process, and it's really based on whether they like you or not. I mean, it's nothing to do with whether you do the best scheme or the worst scheme.
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I made a decision when I was in school that I'd have a lot of male friends.
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The goal posts might shift, but you should have a goal.
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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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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 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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