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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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Zaha Hadid
Age: 65 †
Born: 1950
Born: October 31
Died: 2016
Died: March 31
Architect
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Jewelry Designer
Painter
Sculptor
University Teacher
Bagdad
Zaha Mohammad Hadid
Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid
Zaha M. Hadid
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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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Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, established female architects all the time.
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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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A brilliant design will always benefit from the input of others.
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I am equally proud of all of my architectural projects. It's always rewarding to see an ambitious design become reality.
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I don't use the computer. I do sketches, very quickly, often more than 100 on the same formal research.
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I really believe in the idea of the future.
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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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When I taught, all my best students were women.
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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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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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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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Life in the Middle East is quite different from other places.
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Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.
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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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I made a decision when I was in school that I'd have a lot of male friends.
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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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The paintings have only ever been ways of exploring architecture. I don't see them as art.
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The goal posts might shift, but you should have a goal.
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I always thought I was powerful, since I was a kid.
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