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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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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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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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Being Iraqi taught me to be very cautious.
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They all come out from the same thing all the projects are connected somehow.
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It's not my duty as an architect to look at it.
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I have always appreciated those who dare to experiment with materials and proportions.
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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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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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You don't always have to show art in what's called a white box you can have a kind of complexity within an exhibit which actually respects the art as well.
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From my first days studying architecture at the architectural association, I have always been interested in the concept of fragmentation and with ideas of abstraction and explosion, where we were de-constructing ideas of repetitiveness and mass production.
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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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One has to strive for a very open liberal society.
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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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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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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 like music. Country, hip-hop, R&B, sometimes classical.
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The beauty of the landscape - where sand, water, reeds, birds, buildings, and people all somehow flowed together - has never left me.
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People don't talk to you properly. It's the way they talk to you they dismiss you. I think it's a combination of me being a woman and a foreigner.
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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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Know what it is that you are trying to find out.
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The world is looking more and more segmented, the difference between people is becoming greater.
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