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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.”

Quote by Zaha Hadid

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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. more

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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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Author:Zaha Hadid

“Contrary to popular view, I've never been patronized in the Middle East. Men maybe treat women differently, but they do not treat them with disrespect. They don't hate women. It's a very different kind of mentality.”

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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.”

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Author:Zaha Hadid

“We live in a world where great incompatibles co-exist: the human scale and the superhuman scale, stability and mobility, permanence and change, identity and anonymity, comprehensibility and universality.”

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“Tradition can, to be sure, participate in a creation, but it can no longer be creative itself.”

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Book:Kenzo Tange, 1946-1969; Architecture and Urban Design

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“Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society.”

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“I first decided architecture was for me when I saw Le Corbusier's designs in a Japanese magazine in the 1930s.”

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“Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future.”

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“I've said goodbye to the overworked notion that architecture has to save the world.”

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