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There are 360 degrees, so why stick to one?

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Zaha Hadid
Age: 65 †
Born: 1950
Born: October 31
Died: 2016
Died: March 31
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Bagdad
Zaha Mohammad Hadid
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There are some very similar moments in the early work where the focus was on drawing, abstraction and fragmentation. Then it moved to the development of ideas. Lately it has become what architecture should be, which is more fluid organization. There has not been so much 'a change' but 'a development'.
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When I taught, all my best students were women.
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When I was growing up in Iraq, there was an unbroken belief in progress and a great sense of optimism. It was a moment of nation building.
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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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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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Architecture is particularly difficult for women there's no reason for it to be. I don't want to blame men or society, but I think it was for a long time, the clients were men, the building industry is all male.
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If I'm in london it can be different than if I'm somewhere else.
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Know what it is that you are trying to find out.
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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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I really believe in the idea of the future.
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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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I am eccentric, I admit it, but I am not a nutcase.
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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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I am sure that as a woman I can do a very good skyscraper.
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I find industrial cities exciting. I like their toughness.
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Some people really live and work within the same doctrine, the same diagram with the same logic.
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The conservative values that are emerging, it may not effect architecture immediately but it will effect society and that's what worries me.
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I don't particularly like showing furniture on pedestals, but for whatever reasons you always have to in museums.
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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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What's similar between Britain and America is the lack of good-quality civic buildings.
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