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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 loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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I find industrial cities exciting. I like their toughness.
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Indeed, our designs become more ambitious as we see the new possibilities created by the technology of other industries.
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My father was a politician, and a very important politician, and one of the leaders of the Iraqi Democratic Party, who believed in progress.
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It's not my duty as an architect to look at it.
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Education, housing and hospitals are the most important things for society.
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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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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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They all come out from the same thing all the projects are connected somehow.
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As a woman you're not accessible to every world.
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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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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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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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For a woman to go out alone into architecture is still very, very hard. It's still a man's world.
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In hospital, people should be able to have time to themselves.
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I will always have two regrets. I don't have a presence in London, and I would have liked to have done more work in the Middle East.
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When I first came to Guangzhou in 1981, it seemed such a hard and dour place with everyone in Chairman Mao uniforms.
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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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From my first days studying architecture at the architectural association, I have always been interested in the concept of fragmentation and with ideas of abstraction and explosion, where we were de-constructing ideas of repetitiveness and mass production.
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You really have to have a goal.
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