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Too many are too obsessed by method. it becomes a dogma.

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Zaha Hadid
Age: 65 †
Born: 1950
Born: October 31
Died: 2016
Died: March 31
Architect
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Designer
Jewelry Designer
Painter
Sculptor
University Teacher
Bagdad
Zaha Mohammad Hadid
Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid
Zaha M. Hadid
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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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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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No. I don't have the patience, and I'm not very tactful. People say I can be frightening.
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When I was growing up in Iraq, there was an unbroken belief in progress and a great sense of optimism. It was a moment of nation building.
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In hospital, people should be able to have time to themselves.
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Different projects give you satisfaction in different ways.
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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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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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I am eccentric, I admit it, but I am not a nutcase.
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Would they call me a diva if I were a guy?
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I don't like the masculine style, jeans. I like issey miyake... and black dresses.
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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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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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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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I really love Miami, but I don't think the architecture matches the city. It's a bit too commercial.
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It's very important for cities all around the world to reinvent themselves, and Glasgow is a good example of that. The Scots are very nice. I don't think they are burdened by their history.
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A brilliant design will always benefit from the input of others.
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I always thought I was powerful, since I was a kid.
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Education, housing and hospitals are the most important things for society.
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