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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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Obviously for some people there is a big connection between music and the way you can create a space.
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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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I have always appreciated those who dare to experiment with materials and proportions.
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I like music. Country, hip-hop, R&B, sometimes classical.
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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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Architecture is really about well-being. I think that people want to feel good in a space ... On the one hand it's about shelter, but it's also about pleasure.
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You really have to have a goal. The goal posts might shift, but you should have a goal. Know what it is you want to find out.
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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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I think about architecture all the time. That's the problem. But I've always been like that. I dream it sometimes.
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I miss aspects of being in the Arab world - the language - and there is a tranquility in these cities with great rivers. Whether it's Cairo or Baghdad, you sit there and you think, 'This river has flown here for thousands of years.' There are magical moments in these places.
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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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There are 360 degrees, so why stick to one?
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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 can't focus when there's too many things around. Whenever I used to go to the office, I used to always say, 'Tidy up.'
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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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A brilliant design will always benefit from the input of others.
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What's similar between Britain and America is the lack of good-quality civic buildings.
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Architecture is like writing. You have to edit it over and over so it looks effortless
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Different projects give you satisfaction in different ways.
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I made a decision when I was in school that I'd have a lot of male friends.
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