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A brilliant design will always benefit from the input of others.
Zaha Hadid
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Zaha Hadid
Age: 65 †
Born: 1950
Born: October 31
Died: 2016
Died: March 31
Architect
Artist
Designer
Jewelry Designer
Painter
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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I really love Miami, but I don't think the architecture matches the city. It's a bit too commercial.
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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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I miss aspects of being in the Arab world - the language - and there is a tranquility in these cities with great rivers. Whether it's Cairo or Baghdad, you sit there and you think, 'This river has flown here for thousands of years.' There are magical moments in these places.
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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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With products the form is almost the finished piece, but with architecture it is not.
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Being Iraqi taught me to be very cautious.
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Life in the Middle East is quite different from other places.
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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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The paintings have only ever been ways of exploring architecture. I don't see them as art.
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Would they call me a diva if I were a guy?
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I like music. Country, hip-hop, R&B, sometimes classical.
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I have always appreciated those who dare to experiment with materials and proportions.
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Architecture is really about well-being. I think that people want to feel good in a space ... On the one hand it's about shelter, but it's also about pleasure.
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I've always been interested in combining architecture with a social agenda, and I really think you can invest and be inventive with hospitals and housing.
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Indeed, our designs become more ambitious as we see the new possibilities created by the technology of other industries.
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No. I don't have the patience, and I'm not very tactful. People say I can be frightening.
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They all come out from the same thing all the projects are connected somehow.
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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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The world is looking more and more segmented, the difference between people is becoming greater.
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