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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
Artist
Designer
Jewelry Designer
Painter
Sculptor
University Teacher
Bagdad
Zaha Mohammad Hadid
Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid
Zaha M. Hadid
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Obsessed
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With products the form is almost the finished piece, but with architecture it is not.
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Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.
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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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People say I design architectural icons. If I design a building and it becomes an icon, that's ok.
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