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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
Architect
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Bagdad
Zaha Mohammad Hadid
Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid
Zaha M. Hadid
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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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For many years, I hated nature. As a student, I refused to put a plant anywhere - a living plant, that is. Dead plants were OK.
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There are 360 degrees, so why stick to one?
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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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Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, established female architects all the time.
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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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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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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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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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Too many are too obsessed by method. it becomes a dogma.
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When women do succeed, the press, even the industry press, spend far too much time talking about how we dress, what shoes we're wearing, who we're meant to be seeing. That's pretty sad for women, especially when it's written by women who really should know better.
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Different projects give you satisfaction in different ways.
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As a woman you're not accessible to every world.
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It was such a depressing time. I didn't look very depressed, maybe, but it was really dire. I made a conscious decision not to stop, but it could have gone the other way.
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I am sure that as a woman I can do a very good skyscraper.
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I find industrial cities exciting. I like their toughness.
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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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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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You have to really believe not only in yourself you have to believe that the world is actually worth your sacrifices.
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I always thought I was powerful, since I was a kid.
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