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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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Malevitch discovered abstraction as an experimental principle that can propel creative work to previously unheard levels of invention this abstract work allowed much greater levels of creativity.
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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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I find industrial cities exciting. I like their toughness.
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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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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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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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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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I have been interested in fashion since I was a kid. Then I lived in London, where it was more about costume and a personal statement of who you are than about fashion.
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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 don't think people should do things because you know, 'I am turning this age, I must go have a husband.' If you find somebody and it works out then have kids, it's very nice. But if you don't, you don't.
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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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A brilliant design will always benefit from the input of others.
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I really believe in the idea of the future.
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I don't use the computer. I do sketches, very quickly, often more than 100 on the same formal research.
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The world is looking more and more segmented, the difference between people is becoming greater.
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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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I used to not like being called a 'woman architect.' I'm an architect, not just a woman architect. The guys used to tap me on the head and say 'you're OK for a girl.' But I see an incredible amount of need from other women for reassurance that it can be done, so I don't mind anymore.
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The paintings have only ever been ways of exploring architecture. I don't see them as art.
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There are 360 degrees, so why stick to one?
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