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One has to strive for a very open liberal society.
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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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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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 always thought I was powerful, since I was a kid.
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When I taught, all my best students were women.
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Of course there is a lot of fluidity now between art, architecture and fashion - a lot more cross-pollination in the disciplines, but this isn't about competition, it's about collaboration and what these practices and processes can contribute to one another.
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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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Being Iraqi taught me to be very cautious.
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The goal posts might shift, but you should have a goal.
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If I'm in london it can be different than if I'm somewhere else.
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Life in the Middle East is quite different from other places.
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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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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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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 spirit of adventure to embrace the new and the incredible belief in the power of invention attracted me to the Russian avant-garde.
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