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You really have to have a goal.

Zaha Hadid

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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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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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Know what it is that you are trying to find out.
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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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I am quite sensitive to politics, because you know, as an Arab, an Iraqi, all your life, you are very conscious of it.
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The world is looking more and more segmented, the difference between people is becoming greater.
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As a woman you're not accessible to every world.
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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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Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, established female architects all the time.
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I have always appreciated those who dare to experiment with materials and proportions.
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The current state of architecture and design requires extensive collaboration and an investigative attitude and we continue to research and develop new technologies.
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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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I love driving around east London - it's always full of surprises. Actually, I don't drive myself - I like to be driven.
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The goal posts might shift, but you should have a goal.
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What's similar between Britain and America is the lack of good-quality civic buildings.
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Too many are too obsessed by method. it becomes a dogma.
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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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Good education is so important. We do need to look at the way people are taught. It not just about qualifications to get a job. It's about being educated.
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Malevitch discovered abstraction as an experimental principle that can propel creative work to previously unheard levels of invention this abstract work allowed much greater levels of creativity.
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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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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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