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Zaha Hadid

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In Iraq, many of my female friends were architects and professionals with a lot of power during the 1980s while all the men were at war in Iran.

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02Undated

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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03Undated

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

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04Undated

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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05Undated

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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06Undated

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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07Undated

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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08Undated

Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.

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09Undated

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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10Undated

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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11Undated

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

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12Undated

I really love Miami, but I don't think the architecture matches the city. It's a bit too commercial.

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13Undated

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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14Undated

I am equally proud of all of my architectural projects. It's always rewarding to see an ambitious design become reality.

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15Undated

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

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16Undated

If I wanted to do clothes or if I wanted to make a building or design a choreography, you are able to do that - they are all under a similar kind of design umbrella.

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17Undated

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

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18Undated

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.

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19Undated

I really believe in the idea of the future.

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20Undated

It's very important that historic cities are allowed to reinvent their future.

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