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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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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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Sculptor
University Teacher
Bagdad
Zaha Mohammad Hadid
Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid
Zaha M. Hadid
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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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The current state of architecture and design requires extensive collaboration and an investigative attitude and we continue to research and develop new technologies.
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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 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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Women are always told, 'You're not going to make it, its too difficult, you can't do that, don't enter this competition, you'll never win it,' - they need confidence in themselves and people around them to help them to get on.
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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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One has to strive for a very open liberal society.
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You have to be very focused and work very hard, but it is not about working hard without knowing what your aim is!
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There are some very similar moments in the early work where the focus was on drawing, abstraction and fragmentation. Then it moved to the development of ideas. Lately it has become what architecture should be, which is more fluid organization. There has not been so much 'a change' but 'a development'.
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Know what it is that you are trying to find out.
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I don't think that architecture is only about shelter, is only about a very simple enclosure. It should be able to excite you, to calm you, to make you think.
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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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All the privileged can travel, see different worlds, not everyone can. I think it is important for people to have an interesting locale nearby.
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It is insufficient for architecture today to directly implement an existing building typology it instead requires architects to carefully examine the whole area with new interventions and programmatic typologies
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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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With products the form is almost the finished piece, but with architecture it is not.
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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 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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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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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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