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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.

Zaha Hadid

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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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From my first days studying architecture at the architectural association, I have always been interested in the concept of fragmentation and with ideas of abstraction and explosion, where we were de-constructing ideas of repetitiveness and mass production.
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People don't talk to you properly. It's the way they talk to you they dismiss you. I think it's a combination of me being a woman and a foreigner.
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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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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.
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The idea for a building or an object can come up just as quick, but there is a big difference in process.
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Too many are too obsessed by method. it becomes a dogma.
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Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, established female architects all the time.
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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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When I was growing up in Iraq, there was an unbroken belief in progress and a great sense of optimism. It was a moment of nation building.
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When I taught, all my best students were women.
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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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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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I don't like the masculine style, jeans. I like issey miyake... and black dresses.
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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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Indeed, our designs become more ambitious as we see the new possibilities created by the technology of other industries.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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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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Architecture is particularly difficult for women there's no reason for it to be. I don't want to blame men or society, but I think it was for a long time, the clients were men, the building industry is all male.
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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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Some people really live and work within the same doctrine, the same diagram with the same logic.
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