British - Architect | October 31, 1950 - March 31, 2016
Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, established female architects all the time.
Zaha Hadid
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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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When I first came to Guangzhou in 1981, it seemed such a hard and dour place with everyone in Chairman Mao uniforms.
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I don't particularly like showing furniture on pedestals, but for whatever reasons you always have to in museums.
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My father was a politician, and a very important politician, and one of the leaders of the Iraqi Democratic Party, who believed in progress.
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If you think about making a city that is much more porous, many accessible spaces, that is a political position, because you don't fortify, you open it up so that many people can use it.
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I love driving around east London - it's always full of surprises. Actually, I don't drive myself - I like to be driven.
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I don't think I am that tough, actually. Well, tough in the sense that I don't take any rubbish, and that doesn't make me very popular, frankly. I mean, because some people say something to me, and I just tell them off. I mean, why should I put up with it?
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I like music. Country, hip-hop, R&B, sometimes classical.
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I am sure that as a woman I can do a very good skyscraper.
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The funkiest housing in Holland is for low-income, and I think that's very nice.
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I think it's good if areas get upgraded and gentrified, as long as the people who always lived there can stay. But they get pushed out to some place.
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