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I am eccentric, I admit it, but I am not a nutcase.

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Zaha Hadid
Age: 65 †
Born: 1950
Born: October 31
Died: 2016
Died: March 31
Architect
Artist
Designer
Jewelry Designer
Painter
Sculptor
University Teacher
Bagdad
Zaha Mohammad Hadid
Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid
Zaha M. Hadid
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I don't use the computer. I do sketches, very quickly, often more than 100 on the same formal research.
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You really have to have a goal.
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Obviously for some people there is a big connection between music and the way you can create a space.
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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.
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Would they call me a diva if I were a guy?
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Life in the Middle East is quite different from other places.
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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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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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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 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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Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.
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The world is looking more and more segmented, the difference between people is becoming greater.
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They all come out from the same thing all the projects are connected somehow.
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Contrary to popular view, I've never been patronized in the Middle East. Men maybe treat women differently, but they do not treat them with disrespect. They don't hate women. It's a very different kind of mentality.
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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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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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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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People say I design architectural icons. If I design a building and it becomes an icon, that's ok.
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With products the form is almost the finished piece, but with architecture it is not.
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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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