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If I'm in london it can be different than if I'm somewhere else.

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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
London
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Yes, I'm a feminist, because I see all women as smart, gifted and tough.
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I really believe in the idea of the future.
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I can't focus when there's too many things around. Whenever I used to go to the office, I used to always say, 'Tidy up.'
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When I taught, all my best students were women.
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There are 360 degrees, so why stick to one?
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The goal posts might shift, but you should have a goal.
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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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You really have to have a goal.
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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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I've always thought that design can have equal importance to the idea of internal architecture. Professionally, things can be very dogmatic - you do the architecture, someone else does the interiors, someone else does the furniture, the fabric, etc. But I think design is all-encompassing.
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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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It's not my duty as an architect to look at it.
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My work first engaged with the early russian avant-garde the paintings of moholy-nagy, el lissitzky's 'prouns' and naum gabo's sculptures, but in particular with the work of kasimir malevitch - he was an early influence for me as a representative of the modern avant-garde intersection between art and design.
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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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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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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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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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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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One has to strive for a very open liberal society.
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I don't use the computer. I do sketches, very quickly, often more than 100 on the same formal research.
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