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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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Bagdad
Zaha Mohammad Hadid
Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid
Zaha M. Hadid
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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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Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.
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You have to really believe not only in yourself you have to believe that the world is actually worth your sacrifices.
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Architecture is like writing. You have to edit it over and over so it looks effortless
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It is insufficient for architecture today to directly implement an existing building typology it instead requires architects to carefully examine the whole area with new interventions and programmatic typologies
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Of course I believe imaginative architecture can make a difference to people's lives, but I wish it was possible to divert some of the effort we put into ambitious museums and galleries into the basic architectural building blocks of society.
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In terms of form, all the projects interest me equally, although there are obviously large differences according to the scale and process of each project.
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Women are always told, 'You're not going to make it, its too difficult, you can't do that, don't enter this competition, you'll never win it,' - they need confidence in themselves and people around them to help them to get on.
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The goal posts might shift, but you should have a goal.
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People say I design architectural icons. If I design a building and it becomes an icon, that's ok.
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I really believe in the idea of the future.
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I always thought I was powerful, since I was a kid.
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People often ask me if I consider myself to be an architect, fashion designer, or artist. I'm an architect. The paintings I've done are very important to me, but they were part of a process of thinking and developing.
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Indeed, our designs become more ambitious as we see the new possibilities created by the technology of other industries.
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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.
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They all come out from the same thing all the projects are connected somehow.
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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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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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Being Iraqi taught me to be very cautious.
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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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