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People often ask me if I consider myself to be an architect, fashion designer, or artist. I'm an architect. The paintings I've done are very important to me, but they were part of a process of thinking and developing.

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Zaha Hadid
Age: 65 †
Born: 1950
Born: October 31
Died: 2016
Died: March 31
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Bagdad
Zaha Mohammad Hadid
Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid
Zaha M. Hadid
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Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, established female architects all the time.
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They all come out from the same thing all the projects are connected somehow.
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The conservative values that are emerging, it may not effect architecture immediately but it will effect society and that's what worries me.
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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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I really love Miami, but I don't think the architecture matches the city. It's a bit too commercial.
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When I taught, all my best students were women.
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