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Architecture is like writing. You have to edit it over and over so it looks effortless
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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Bagdad
Zaha Mohammad Hadid
Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid
Zaha M. Hadid
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Of course there is a lot of fluidity now between art, architecture and fashion - a lot more cross-pollination in the disciplines, but this isn't about competition, it's about collaboration and what these practices and processes can contribute to one another.
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As a woman, I'm expected to want everything to be nice and to be nice myself. A very English thing. I don't design nice buildings - I don't like them. I like architecture to have some raw, vital, earthy quality.
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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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Some people really live and work within the same doctrine, the same diagram with the same logic.
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I like music. Country, hip-hop, R&B, sometimes classical.
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You really have to have a goal. The goal posts might shift, but you should have a goal. Know what it is you want to find out.
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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 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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In terms of form, all the projects interest me equally, although there are obviously large differences according to the scale and process of each project.
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What's similar between Britain and America is the lack of good-quality civic buildings.
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I love driving around east London - it's always full of surprises. Actually, I don't drive myself - I like to be driven.
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Architecture is particularly difficult for women there's no reason for it to be. I don't want to blame men or society, but I think it was for a long time, the clients were men, the building industry is all male.
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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 am quite sensitive to politics, because you know, as an Arab, an Iraqi, all your life, you are very conscious of it.
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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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Of course I believe imaginative architecture can make a difference to people's lives, but I wish it was possible to divert some of the effort we put into ambitious museums and galleries into the basic architectural building blocks of society.
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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 made a decision when I was in school that I'd have a lot of male friends.
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When you are overworked and exhausted, there is a sense of kind of delirium and that's why I think architects do all-nighters and they kind of do those deadlines. For four days I remember doing four nights in one row with no sleep. I mean nobody, unless you are crazy, would do that, but you are totally focused on the project.
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