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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
Painter
Sculptor
University Teacher
Bagdad
Zaha Mohammad Hadid
Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid
Zaha M. Hadid
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My work first engaged with the early russian avant-garde the paintings of moholy-nagy, el lissitzky's 'prouns' and naum gabo's sculptures, but in particular with the work of kasimir malevitch - he was an early influence for me as a representative of the modern avant-garde intersection between art and design.
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I like music. Country, hip-hop, R&B, sometimes classical.
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A brilliant design will always benefit from the input of others.
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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 love Miami, but I don't think the architecture matches the city. It's a bit too commercial.
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I am eccentric, I admit it, but I am not a nutcase.
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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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No. I don't have the patience, and I'm not very tactful. People say I can be frightening.
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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 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 have always appreciated those who dare to experiment with materials and proportions.
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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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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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I don't particularly like showing furniture on pedestals, but for whatever reasons you always have to in museums.
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There is a strong reciprocal relationship whereby our more ambitious design visions encourage the continuing development of the new digital technologies and fabrication techniques, and those new developments in turn inspire us to push the design envelope ever further.
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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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If I'm in london it can be different than if I'm somewhere else.
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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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