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I really love Miami, but I don't think the architecture matches the city. It's a bit too commercial.

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Zaha Hadid
Age: 65 †
Born: 1950
Born: October 31
Died: 2016
Died: March 31
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Bagdad
Zaha Mohammad Hadid
Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid
Zaha M. Hadid
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It was such a depressing time. I didn't look very depressed, maybe, but it was really dire. I made a conscious decision not to stop, but it could have gone the other way.
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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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People don't talk to you properly. It's the way they talk to you they dismiss you. I think it's a combination of me being a woman and a foreigner.
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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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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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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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In terms of form, all the projects interest me equally, although there are obviously large differences according to the scale and process of each project.
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I miss aspects of being in the Arab world - the language - and there is a tranquility in these cities with great rivers. Whether it's Cairo or Baghdad, you sit there and you think, 'This river has flown here for thousands of years.' There are magical moments in these places.
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Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, established female architects all the time.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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Would they call me a diva if I were a guy?
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I always thought I was powerful, since I was a kid.
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Wherever I am in the world, my perfect day begins with waking up and heading to the beach or the pool or somewhere I can be semi-comatose. I just wake up and go to the sun.
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It would be very interesting to design objects for everyday life, something where the ideas that are expressed can be launched into society.
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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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