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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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Else
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I don't think people should do things because you know, 'I am turning this age, I must go have a husband.' If you find somebody and it works out then have kids, it's very nice. But if you don't, you don't.
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The goal posts might shift, but you should have a goal.
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I like music. Country, hip-hop, R&B, sometimes classical.
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The world is looking more and more segmented, the difference between people is becoming greater.
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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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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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Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person.
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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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One has to strive for a very open liberal society.
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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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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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I will always have two regrets. I don't have a presence in London, and I would have liked to have done more work in the Middle East.
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I think about architecture all the time. That's the problem. But I've always been like that. I dream it sometimes.
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Contrary to popular view, I've never been patronized in the Middle East. Men maybe treat women differently, but they do not treat them with disrespect. They don't hate women. It's a very different kind of mentality.
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When I taught, all my best students were women.
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I find industrial cities exciting. I like their toughness.
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My father was a politician, and a very important politician, and one of the leaders of the Iraqi Democratic Party, who believed in progress.
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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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In hospital, people should be able to have time to themselves.
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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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