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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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Education, housing and hospitals are the most important things for society.
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In hospital, people should be able to have time to themselves.
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You really have to have a goal. The goal posts might shift, but you should have a goal. Know what it is you want to find out.
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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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What's similar between Britain and America is the lack of good-quality civic buildings.
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No. I don't have the patience, and I'm not very tactful. People say I can be frightening.
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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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It would be very interesting to design objects for everyday life, something where the ideas that are expressed can be launched into society.
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They all come out from the same thing all the projects are connected somehow.
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I don't think people should do things because you know, 'I am turning this age, I must go have a husband.' If you find somebody and it works out then have kids, it's very nice. But if you don't, you don't.
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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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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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There are so many great galleries and museums in London, but they can be very crowded during the day.
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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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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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A brilliant design will always benefit from the input of others.
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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 paintings have only ever been ways of exploring architecture. I don't see them as art.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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