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It's not my duty as an architect to look at it.

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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Sculptor
University Teacher
Bagdad
Zaha Mohammad Hadid
Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid
Zaha M. Hadid
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When I taught, all my best students were women.
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I miss aspects of being in the Arab world - the language - and there is a tranquility in these cities with great rivers. Whether it's Cairo or Baghdad, you sit there and you think, 'This river has flown here for thousands of years.' There are magical moments in these places.
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The goal posts might shift, but you should have a goal.
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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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The beauty of the landscape - where sand, water, reeds, birds, buildings, and people all somehow flowed together - has never left me.
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Know what it is that you are trying to find out.
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Different projects give you satisfaction in different ways.
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I used to not like being called a 'woman architect.' I'm an architect, not just a woman architect. The guys used to tap me on the head and say 'you're OK for a girl.' But I see an incredible amount of need from other women for reassurance that it can be done, so I don't mind anymore.
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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 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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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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Good education is so important. We do need to look at the way people are taught. It not just about qualifications to get a job. It's about being educated.
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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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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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I made a decision when I was in school that I'd have a lot of male friends.
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I like music. Country, hip-hop, R&B, sometimes classical.
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I don't think that everybody in the planet should have a child. I've never had the desire I should have a kid.
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Education, housing and hospitals are the most important things for society.
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When you are overworked and exhausted, there is a sense of kind of delirium and that's why I think architects do all-nighters and they kind of do those deadlines. For four days I remember doing four nights in one row with no sleep. I mean nobody, unless you are crazy, would do that, but you are totally focused on the project.
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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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