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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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University Teacher
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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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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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 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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There are 360 degrees, so why stick to one?
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For a woman to go out alone into architecture is still very, very hard. It's still a man's world.
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A brilliant design will always benefit from the input of others.
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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 am sure that as a woman I can do a very good skyscraper.
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The commission process in America and England is different. In America, they do it through an interview process, and it's really based on whether they like you or not. I mean, it's nothing to do with whether you do the best scheme or the worst scheme.
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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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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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In hospital, people should be able to have time to themselves.
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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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I don't like the masculine style, jeans. I like issey miyake... and black dresses.
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It would be very interesting to design objects for everyday life, something where the ideas that are expressed can be launched into society.
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Education, housing and hospitals are the most important things for society.
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I am eccentric, I admit it, but I am not a nutcase.
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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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Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, established female architects all the time.
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