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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.

Zaha Hadid

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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
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University Teacher
Bagdad
Zaha Mohammad Hadid
Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid
Zaha M. Hadid
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I always thought I was powerful, since I was a kid.
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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 really believe not only in yourself you have to believe that the world is actually worth your sacrifices.
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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 commission process in America and England is different. In America, they do it through an interview process, and it's really based on whether they like you or not. I mean, it's nothing to do with whether you do the best scheme or the worst scheme.
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I don't think that everybody in the planet should have a child. I've never had the desire I should have a kid.
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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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As a woman you're not accessible to every world.
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Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.
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The world is looking more and more segmented, the difference between people is becoming greater.
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The spirit of adventure to embrace the new and the incredible belief in the power of invention attracted me to the Russian avant-garde.
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Being Iraqi taught me to be very cautious.
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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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The goal posts might shift, but you should have a goal.
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Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, established female architects all the time.
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The idea for a building or an object can come up just as quick, but there is a big difference in process.
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I am sure that as a woman I can do a very good skyscraper.
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