British - Architect | October 31, 1950 - March 31, 2016
The spirit of adventure to embrace the new and the incredible belief in the power of invention attracted me to the Russian avant-garde.
Zaha Hadid
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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 in power, they're so used to people kind of playing up to them.
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I will always have two regrets. I don't have a presence in London, and I would have liked to have done more work in the Middle East.
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I always thought I was powerful, since I was a kid.
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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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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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Wherever I am in the world, my perfect day begins with waking up and heading to the beach or the pool or somewhere I can be semi-comatose. I just wake up and go to the sun.
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There are so many great galleries and museums in London, but they can be very crowded during the day.
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Being Iraqi taught me to be very cautious.
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My friendships are very important to me.
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I think that the training of architects allows you to see what will happen ten years ahead of time, or twenty. It's not guessing, it's not intuitive, it's based on research - and we may be wrong.
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