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You really have to have a goal. The goal posts might shift, but you should have a goal. Know what it is you want to find out.
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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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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There are some very similar moments in the early work where the focus was on drawing, abstraction and fragmentation. Then it moved to the development of ideas. Lately it has become what architecture should be, which is more fluid organization. There has not been so much 'a change' but 'a development'.
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It's not my duty as an architect to look at it.
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The conservative values that are emerging, it may not effect architecture immediately but it will effect society and that's what worries me.
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I am quite sensitive to politics, because you know, as an Arab, an Iraqi, all your life, you are very conscious of it.
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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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As a woman you're not accessible to every world.
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With products the form is almost the finished piece, but with architecture it is not.
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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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Of course there is a lot of fluidity now between art, architecture and fashion - a lot more cross-pollination in the disciplines, but this isn't about competition, it's about collaboration and what these practices and processes can contribute to one another.
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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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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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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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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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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 am sure that as a woman I can do a very good skyscraper.
Zaha Hadid
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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What's similar between Britain and America is the lack of good-quality civic buildings.
Zaha Hadid
Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, established female architects all the time.
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