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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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What's similar between Britain and America is the lack of good-quality civic buildings.
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Too many are too obsessed by method. it becomes a dogma.
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I have always appreciated those who dare to experiment with materials and proportions.
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It's not my duty as an architect to look at it.
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Good education is so important. We do need to look at the way people are taught. It not just about qualifications to get a job. It's about being educated.
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You have to really believe not only in yourself you have to believe that the world is actually worth your sacrifices.
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I like music. Country, hip-hop, R&B, sometimes classical.
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The world is looking more and more segmented, the difference between people is becoming greater.
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It's very important for cities all around the world to reinvent themselves, and Glasgow is a good example of that. The Scots are very nice. I don't think they are burdened by their history.
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I always thought I was powerful, since I was a kid.
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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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Being Iraqi taught me to be very cautious.
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I don't like the masculine style, jeans. I like issey miyake... and black dresses.
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My father was a politician, and a very important politician, and one of the leaders of the Iraqi Democratic Party, who believed in progress.
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I don't particularly like showing furniture on pedestals, but for whatever reasons you always have to in museums.
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I don't think that everybody in the planet should have a child. I've never had the desire I should have a kid.
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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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Indeed, our designs become more ambitious as we see the new possibilities created by the technology of other industries.
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Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person.
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No. I don't have the patience, and I'm not very tactful. People say I can be frightening.
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