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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 loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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The goal posts might shift, but you should have a goal.
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Wherever I am in the world, my perfect day begins with waking up and heading to the beach or the pool or somewhere I can be semi-comatose. I just wake up and go to the sun.
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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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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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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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Would they call me a diva if I were a guy?
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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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You really have to have a goal.
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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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Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, established female architects all the time.
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The world is looking more and more segmented, the difference between people is becoming greater.
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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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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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I don't like the masculine style, jeans. I like issey miyake... and black dresses.
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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 like music. Country, hip-hop, R&B, sometimes classical.
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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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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 find industrial cities exciting. I like their toughness.
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