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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
Painter
Sculptor
University Teacher
Bagdad
Zaha Mohammad Hadid
Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid
Zaha M. Hadid
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I am equally proud of all of my architectural projects. It's always rewarding to see an ambitious design become reality.
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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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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 find industrial cities exciting. I like their toughness.
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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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No. I don't have the patience, and I'm not very tactful. People say I can be frightening.
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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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The paintings have only ever been ways of exploring architecture. I don't see them as art.
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Architecture is like writing. You have to edit it over and over so it looks effortless
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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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Architecture is really about well-being. I think that people want to feel good in a space ... On the one hand it's about shelter, but it's also about pleasure.
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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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I really believe in the idea of the future.
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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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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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The current state of architecture and design requires extensive collaboration and an investigative attitude and we continue to research and develop new technologies.
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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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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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