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The beauty of the landscape - where sand, water, reeds, birds, buildings, and people all somehow flowed together - has never left me.

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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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Water
Birds
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Sand
Together
Landscape
Never
Somehow
People
Bird
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Flowed
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In Iraq, many of my female friends were architects and professionals with a lot of power during the 1980s while all the men were at war in Iran.
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You really have to have a goal.
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Life in the Middle East is quite different from other places.
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The spirit of adventure to embrace the new and the incredible belief in the power of invention attracted me to the Russian avant-garde.
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