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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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Zaha Hadid
Age: 65 †
Born: 1950
Born: October 31
Died: 2016
Died: March 31
Architect
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Designer
Jewelry Designer
Painter
Sculptor
University Teacher
Bagdad
Zaha Mohammad Hadid
Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid
Zaha M. Hadid
London
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There is a strong reciprocal relationship whereby our more ambitious design visions encourage the continuing development of the new digital technologies and fabrication techniques, and those new developments in turn inspire us to push the design envelope ever further.
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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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Life in the Middle East is quite different from other places.
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Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person.
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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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Contrary to popular view, I've never been patronized in the Middle East. Men maybe treat women differently, but they do not treat them with disrespect. They don't hate women. It's a very different kind of mentality.
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You don't always have to show art in what's called a white box you can have a kind of complexity within an exhibit which actually respects the art as well.
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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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The paintings have only ever been ways of exploring architecture. I don't see them as art.
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With products the form is almost the finished piece, but with architecture it is not.
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Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.
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I've always been interested in combining architecture with a social agenda, and I really think you can invest and be inventive with hospitals and housing.
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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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I can't focus when there's too many things around. Whenever I used to go to the office, I used to always say, 'Tidy up.'
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I am eccentric, I admit it, but I am not a nutcase.
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Malevitch discovered abstraction as an experimental principle that can propel creative work to previously unheard levels of invention this abstract work allowed much greater levels of creativity.
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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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They all come out from the same thing all the projects are connected somehow.
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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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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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