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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
London
Exciting
Loved
Really
Wild

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I find industrial cities exciting. I like their toughness.
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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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One has to strive for a very open liberal society.
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I am quite sensitive to politics, because you know, as an Arab, an Iraqi, all your life, you are very conscious of it.
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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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Yes, I'm a feminist, because I see all women as smart, gifted and tough.
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My work first engaged with the early russian avant-garde the paintings of moholy-nagy, el lissitzky's 'prouns' and naum gabo's sculptures, but in particular with the work of kasimir malevitch - he was an early influence for me as a representative of the modern avant-garde intersection between art and design.
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Contrary to popular view, I've never been patronized in the Middle East. Men maybe treat women differently, but they do not treat them with disrespect. They don't hate women. It's a very different kind of mentality.
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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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Obviously for some people there is a big connection between music and the way you can create a space.
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Would they call me a diva if I were a guy?
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I used to not like being called a 'woman architect.' I'm an architect, not just a woman architect. The guys used to tap me on the head and say 'you're OK for a girl.' But I see an incredible amount of need from other women for reassurance that it can be done, so I don't mind anymore.
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Malevitch discovered abstraction as an experimental principle that can propel creative work to previously unheard levels of invention this abstract work allowed much greater levels of creativity.
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Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.
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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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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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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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