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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
People
Bird
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Flowed
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Reeds
Beauty
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Water
Birds
Left
Sand
Together
Landscape
Never
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