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You really have to have a goal.

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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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The paintings have only ever been ways of exploring architecture. I don't see them as art.
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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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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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People often ask me if I consider myself to be an architect, fashion designer, or artist. I'm an architect. The paintings I've done are very important to me, but they were part of a process of thinking and developing.
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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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You have to really believe not only in yourself you have to believe that the world is actually worth your sacrifices.
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There are 360 degrees, so why stick to one?
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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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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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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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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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I don't use the computer. I do sketches, very quickly, often more than 100 on the same formal research.
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It's not my duty as an architect to look at it.
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All the privileged can travel, see different worlds, not everyone can. I think it is important for people to have an interesting locale nearby.
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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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I don't think that everybody in the planet should have a child. I've never had the desire I should have a kid.
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In Iraq, many of my female friends were architects and professionals with a lot of power during the 1980s while all the men were at war in Iran.
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It was such a depressing time. I didn't look very depressed, maybe, but it was really dire. I made a conscious decision not to stop, but it could have gone the other way.
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I am eccentric, I admit it, but I am not a nutcase.
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Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.
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