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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.

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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University Teacher
Bagdad
Zaha Mohammad Hadid
Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid
Zaha M. Hadid
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People don't talk to you properly. It's the way they talk to you they dismiss you. I think it's a combination of me being a woman and a foreigner.
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I find industrial cities exciting. I like their toughness.
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Different projects give you satisfaction in different ways.
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I will always have two regrets. I don't have a presence in London, and I would have liked to have done more work in the Middle East.
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Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.
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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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I have always appreciated those who dare to experiment with materials and proportions.
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Would they call me a diva if I were a guy?
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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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Some people really live and work within the same doctrine, the same diagram with the same logic.
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They all come out from the same thing all the projects are connected somehow.
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A brilliant design will always benefit from the input of others.
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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 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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I don't use the computer. I do sketches, very quickly, often more than 100 on the same formal research.
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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'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 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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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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I can't focus when there's too many things around. Whenever I used to go to the office, I used to always say, 'Tidy up.'
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