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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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Bagdad
Zaha Mohammad Hadid
Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid
Zaha M. Hadid
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The current state of architecture and design requires extensive collaboration and an investigative attitude and we continue to research and develop new technologies.
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The goal posts might shift, but you should have a goal.
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For many years, I hated nature. As a student, I refused to put a plant anywhere - a living plant, that is. Dead plants were OK.
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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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There are 360 degrees, so why stick to one?
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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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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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I like music. Country, hip-hop, R&B, sometimes classical.
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I have been interested in fashion since I was a kid. Then I lived in London, where it was more about costume and a personal statement of who you are than about fashion.
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I've always thought that design can have equal importance to the idea of internal architecture. Professionally, things can be very dogmatic - you do the architecture, someone else does the interiors, someone else does the furniture, the fabric, etc. But I think design is all-encompassing.
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If I'm in london it can be different than if I'm somewhere else.
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When I taught, all my best students were women.
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Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, established female architects all the time.
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When I first came to Guangzhou in 1981, it seemed such a hard and dour place with everyone in Chairman Mao uniforms.
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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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I really love Miami, but I don't think the architecture matches the city. It's a bit too commercial.
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I find industrial cities exciting. I like their toughness.
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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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It's not my duty as an architect to look at it.
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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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