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Zaha Hadid was a British-Iraqi architect known for her innovative design style and avant-garde architectural works. She is considered one of the most influential women in the field of modern architecture, with her projects spread across the globe, including the famous shard in London and the Burj Al Arab in Dubai.

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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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“The paintings have only ever been ways of exploring architecture. I don't see them as art.”

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“Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person.”

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“Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.”

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

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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 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've always thought that design can have equal importance to the idea of internal architecture. Professionally, things can be very dogmatic - you do the architecture, someone else does the interiors, someone else does the furniture, the fabric, etc. But I think design is all-encompassing.”

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“Of course I believe imaginative architecture can make a difference to people's lives, but I wish it was possible to divert some of the effort we put into ambitious museums and galleries into the basic architectural building blocks of society.”

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

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“My earliest memory of architecture, I was perhaps 6 or 7 years old, was of my aunt building a house in mosul in the north of iraq. The architect was a close friend of my father's and he used to come to our house with the drawings and models. I remember seeing the model in our living room and I think it triggered something, as I was completely intrigued by it.”

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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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“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 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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“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'.”

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“With products the form is almost the finished piece, but with architecture it is not.”

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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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“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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“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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“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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“I'm trying to discover - invent, I suppose - an architecture, and forms of urban planning, that do something of the same thing in a contemporary way. I started out trying to create buildings that would sparkle like isolated jewels; now I want them to connect, to form a new kind of landscape, to flow together with contemporary cities and the lives of their peoples.”

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“Architecture is particularly difficult for women; there's no reason for it to be. I don't want to blame men or society, but I think it was for a long time, the clients were men, the building industry is all male.”

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“As a woman, I'm expected to want everything to be nice and to be nice myself. A very English thing. I don't design nice buildings - I don't like them. I like architecture to have some raw, vital, earthy quality.”

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“I don't think that architecture is only about shelter, is only about a very simple enclosure. It should be able to excite you, to calm you, to make you think.”

Thinking Should Able Simple Calm Architecture Shelter Make You Think Enclosure

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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. The intention is to really carve out of a city civic spaces and the more it is accessible to a much larger mass in public and it's about people enjoying that space. That makes life that much better. If you think about housing, education, whether schools and hospitals, these are all very interesting projects because in the way you interpret this special experience.”

“It's not my duty as an architect to look at it.”

Looks Duty Architecture Architect

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About the Author

Born: October 31, 1950
Died: March 31, 2016
Known for: Architect
Quotes: 104

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