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Zaha Hadid Biography

Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid DBE RA (Arabic: زها حديد‎ Zahā Ḥadīd; 31 October 1950 – 31 March 2016) was an Iraqi-British architect.

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I am eccentric, I admit it, but I am not a nutcase.

Admit, Eccentric, Nutcase

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.

Beach, Begins, Day, Perfect Days, Wake, Wake Up

Being Iraqi taught me to be very cautious.

Cautious, Iraqi, Taught

When women do succeed, the press, even the industry press, spend far too much time talking about how we dress, what shoes we're wearing, who we're meant to be seeing. That's pretty sad for women, especially when it's written by women who really should know better.

Dress, Shoes, Success, Talking, Time

I don't think that everybody in the planet should have a child. I've never had the desire I should have a kid.

Child, Children, Desire, Kids, Think, Thinking

There are 360 degrees, so why stick to one?

Degrees, Sticks, Architecture, 360, Stick

The beauty of the landscape - where sand, water, reeds, birds, buildings, and people all somehow flowed together - has never left me.

Bird, People, Reeds, Together, Water

I have been interested in fashion since I was a kid. Then I lived in London, where it was more about costume and a personal statement of who you are than about fashion.

Fashion, Interested, Kid, Kids, London, Statement

It's very important for cities all around the world to reinvent themselves, and Glasgow is a good example of that. The Scots are very nice. I don't think they are burdened by their history.

Cities, History, Nice, Scots, Thinking

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'.

Change, Drawing, Ideas, Organization

Two years ago I focused on one apartment to see how many variations you can come up with in a given space with the same parameters. I would work on this repeatedly for days and you see that there is maybe seven hundred options for one space. This exercise gives you an idea of the degree at which you can interpret the organization of space, it is not infinite but it's very large.

Come, Exercise, Focused, Infinite, Space, Two

The idea for a building or an object can come up just as quick, but there is a big difference in process.

Big, Building, Difference, Differences, Ideas

Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, established female architects all the time.

Female, Half, See, Students

Architecture is like writing. You have to edit it over and over so it looks effortless

Architecture, Edit, Looks, Writing

Some people really live and work within the same doctrine, the same diagram with the same logic.

Diagram, Doctrine, Live, Logic, People, Work

All the privileged can travel, see different worlds, not everyone can. I think it is important for people to have an interesting locale nearby.

Everyone, Interesting, Locale, People, Thinking, Worlds

The world is looking more and more segmented, the difference between people is becoming greater.

Becoming, Difference, Differences, Greater, People, World

Education, housing and hospitals are the most important things for society.

Education, Housing, Important, Important Things, Society, Things

What's similar between Britain and America is the lack of good-quality civic buildings.

America, Britain And America, Building, Civic, Quality, Similar

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.

Arab, Cities, Language, Think, Thinking, Years

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