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I don't like the masculine style, jeans. I like issey miyake... and black dresses.

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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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Masculine
Jeans
Dresses

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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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What's similar between Britain and America is the lack of good-quality civic buildings.
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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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I used to not like being called a 'woman architect.' I'm an architect, not just a woman architect. The guys used to tap me on the head and say 'you're OK for a girl.' But I see an incredible amount of need from other women for reassurance that it can be done, so I don't mind anymore.
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Education, housing and hospitals are the most important things for society.
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There are some very similar moments in the early work where the focus was on drawing, abstraction and fragmentation. Then it moved to the development of ideas. Lately it has become what architecture should be, which is more fluid organization. There has not been so much 'a change' but 'a development'.
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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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With products the form is almost the finished piece, but with architecture it is not.
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I like music. Country, hip-hop, R&B, sometimes classical.
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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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Some people really live and work within the same doctrine, the same diagram with the same logic.
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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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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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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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When I taught, all my best students were women.
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Yes, I'm a feminist, because I see all women as smart, gifted and tough.
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The goal posts might shift, but you should have a goal.
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There are 360 degrees, so why stick to one?
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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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