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

People Together Left Water Influence Building Bird Landscape Sand Reeds

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“No. I don't have the patience, and I'm not very tactful. People say I can be frightening.”

People I Can Teaching Frightening

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

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“People say I design architectural icons. If I design a building and it becomes an icon, that's ok.”

People Ifs Design Building Icons

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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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“Good education is so important. We do need to look at the way people are taught. It not just about qualifications to get a job. It's about being educated.”

People Way Needs Looks Important Jobs Taught Educated Qualifications Good Education

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“People often ask me if I consider myself to be an architect, fashion designer, or artist. I'm an architect. The paintings I've done are very important to me, but they were part of a process of thinking and developing.”

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

People Logic Doctrine Diagrams

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

People World Differences Greater Becoming

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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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“Women are always told, 'You're not going to make it, its too difficult, you can't do that, don't enter this competition, you'll never win it,' - they need confidence in themselves and people around them to help them to get on.”

People Needs Helping Winning Difficult Competition

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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.”

“Obviously for some people there is a big connection between music and the way you can create a space.”

People Way Bigs Space Connections

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“I don't think people should do things because you know, 'I am turning this age, I must go have a husband.' If you find somebody and it works out then have kids, it's very nice. But if you don't, you don't.”

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“In hospital, people should be able to have time to themselves.”

People Should Able Hospitals

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About the Author

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

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