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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
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Jewelry Designer
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Bagdad
Zaha Mohammad Hadid
Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid
Zaha M. Hadid
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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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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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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 am equally proud of all of my architectural projects. It's always rewarding to see an ambitious design become reality.
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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 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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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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Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.
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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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People say I design architectural icons. If I design a building and it becomes an icon, that's ok.
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I always thought I was powerful, since I was a kid.
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The goal posts might shift, but you should have a goal.
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