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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.

Zaha Hadid

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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
Iraq
Female
Friends
War
Power
Architects
Many
Professionals
Men
Architect
Iran

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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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Life in the Middle East is quite different from other places.
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Being Iraqi taught me to be very cautious.
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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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Too many are too obsessed by method. it becomes a dogma.
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I like music. Country, hip-hop, R&B, sometimes classical.
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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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I will always have two regrets. I don't have a presence in London, and I would have liked to have done more work in the Middle East.
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The beauty of the landscape - where sand, water, reeds, birds, buildings, and people all somehow flowed together - has never left me.
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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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Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, established female architects all the time.
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Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.
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