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I've always thought that design can have equal importance to the idea of internal architecture. Prof...

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

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Good education is so important. We do need to look at the way people are taught. It not just about q...

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

I think about architecture all the time. That's the problem. But I've always been like that. I dream...

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

If I wanted to do clothes or if I wanted to make a building or design a choreography, you are able t...

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Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the objec...

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

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

As a woman, I'm expected to want everything to be nice and to be nice myself. A very English thing. ...

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Of course I believe imaginative architecture can make a difference to people's lives, but I wish it ...

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

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All the privileged can travel, see different worlds; not everyone can. I think it is important for p...

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Architecture is particularly difficult for women; there's no reason for it to be. I don't want to bl...

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I don't think that architecture is only about shelter, is only about a very simple enclosure. It sho...

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Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.

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

I really believe in the idea of the future.

In Iraq, many of my female friends were architects and professionals with a lot of power during the ...

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Zaha Hadid

Architect

Born: 1950-10-31

Died: 2016-03-31

DBE زها حديد Zahā Ḥadīd; 31 October 1950 – 31 March 2016) was an Iraqi architect. She was the first woman to receive the Pritzker Architecture Prize, winning it in 2004. She received the Stirling Prize in 2010 and 2011. In 2012, she was created a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire and in 2015 she became the first woman to be awarded the RIBA Gold Medal in her own right.More