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Life in the Middle East is quite different from other places.

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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
Middle
Different
Life
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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You really have to have a goal. The goal posts might shift, but you should have a goal. Know what it is you want to find out.
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It's very important for cities all around the world to reinvent themselves, and Glasgow is a good example of that. The Scots are very nice. I don't think they are burdened by their history.
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You have to be very focused and work very hard, but it is not about working hard without knowing what your aim is!
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There are so many great galleries and museums in London, but they can be very crowded during the day.
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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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People often ask me if I consider myself to be an architect, fashion designer, or artist. I'm an architect. The paintings I've done are very important to me, but they were part of a process of thinking and developing.
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No. I don't have the patience, and I'm not very tactful. People say I can be frightening.
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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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When I taught, all my best students were women.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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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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A brilliant design will always benefit from the input of others.
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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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Women are always told, 'You're not going to make it, its too difficult, you can't do that, don't enter this competition, you'll never win it,' - they need confidence in themselves and people around them to help them to get on.
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It is insufficient for architecture today to directly implement an existing building typology it instead requires architects to carefully examine the whole area with new interventions and programmatic typologies
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They all come out from the same thing all the projects are connected somehow.
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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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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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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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