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Yes, I'm a feminist, because I see all women as smart, gifted and tough.

Zaha Hadid

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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
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Women
Gifted
Feminist
Smart
Tough

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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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Education, housing and hospitals are the most important things for society.
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Architecture is really about well-being. I think that people want to feel good in a space ... On the one hand it's about shelter, but it's also about pleasure.
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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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I always thought I was powerful, since I was a kid.
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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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With products the form is almost the finished piece, but with architecture it is not.
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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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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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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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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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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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I am quite sensitive to politics, because you know, as an Arab, an Iraqi, all your life, you are very conscious of it.
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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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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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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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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 am sure that as a woman I can do a very good skyscraper.
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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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I really love Miami, but I don't think the architecture matches the city. It's a bit too commercial.
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