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When I taught, all my best students were women.

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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Taught
Women
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My father was a politician, and a very important politician, and one of the leaders of the Iraqi Democratic Party, who believed in progress.
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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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Some people really live and work within the same doctrine, the same diagram with the same logic.
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It's very important for cities all around the world to reinvent themselves, and Glasgow is a good example of that. The Scots are very nice. I don't think they are burdened by their history.
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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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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 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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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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Wherever I am in the world, my perfect day begins with waking up and heading to the beach or the pool or somewhere I can be semi-comatose. I just wake up and go to the sun.
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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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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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You don't always have to show art in what's called a white box you can have a kind of complexity within an exhibit which actually respects the art as well.
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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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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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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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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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A brilliant design will always benefit from the input of others.
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What's similar between Britain and America is the lack of good-quality civic buildings.
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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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