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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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I am eccentric, I admit it, but I am not a nutcase.
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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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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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I made a decision when I was in school that I'd have a lot of male friends.
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They all come out from the same thing all the projects are connected somehow.
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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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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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Education, housing and hospitals are the most important things for society.
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The commission process in America and England is different. In America, they do it through an interview process, and it's really based on whether they like you or not. I mean, it's nothing to do with whether you do the best scheme or the worst scheme.
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What's similar between Britain and America is the lack of good-quality civic buildings.
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A brilliant design will always benefit from the input of others.
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Wherever I am in the world, my perfect day begins with waking up and heading to the beach or the pool or somewhere I can be semi-comatose. I just wake up and go to the sun.
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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 love Miami, but I don't think the architecture matches the city. It's a bit too commercial.
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Life in the Middle East is quite different from other places.
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I like music. Country, hip-hop, R&B, sometimes classical.
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When you are overworked and exhausted, there is a sense of kind of delirium and that's why I think architects do all-nighters and they kind of do those deadlines. For four days I remember doing four nights in one row with no sleep. I mean nobody, unless you are crazy, would do that, but you are totally focused on the project.
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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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The paintings have only ever been ways of exploring architecture. I don't see them as art.
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Being Iraqi taught me to be very cautious.
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