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Would they call me a diva if I were a guy?
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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Bagdad
Zaha Mohammad Hadid
Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid
Zaha M. Hadid
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I've always thought that design can have equal importance to the idea of internal architecture. Professionally, things can be very dogmatic - you do the architecture, someone else does the interiors, someone else does the furniture, the fabric, etc. But I think design is all-encompassing.
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Being Iraqi taught me to be very cautious.
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When women do succeed, the press, even the industry press, spend far too much time talking about how we dress, what shoes we're wearing, who we're meant to be seeing. That's pretty sad for women, especially when it's written by women who really should know better.
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You really have to have a goal.
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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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I always thought I was powerful, since I was a kid.
Zaha Hadid
The paintings have only ever been ways of exploring architecture. I don't see them as art.
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The world is looking more and more segmented, the difference between people is becoming greater.
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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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Different projects give you satisfaction in different ways.
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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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I don't particularly like showing furniture on pedestals, but for whatever reasons you always have to in museums.
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What's similar between Britain and America is the lack of good-quality civic buildings.
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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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There are so many great galleries and museums in London, but they can be very crowded during the day.
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Good education is so important. We do need to look at the way people are taught. It not just about qualifications to get a job. It's about being educated.
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Yes, I'm a feminist, because I see all women as smart, gifted and tough.
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In Iraq, many of my female friends were architects and professionals with a lot of power during the 1980s while all the men were at war in Iran.
Zaha Hadid
The idea for a building or an object can come up just as quick, but there is a big difference in process.
Zaha Hadid
People say I design architectural icons. If I design a building and it becomes an icon, that's ok.
Zaha Hadid
