British - Architect | October 31, 1950 - March 31, 2016
What's similar between Britain and America is the lack of good-quality civic buildings.
Zaha Hadid
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When I taught, all my best students were women.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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I have been interested in fashion since I was a kid. Then I lived in London, where it was more about costume and a personal statement of who you are than about fashion.
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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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Men think a woman should not have an opinion.
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I made a decision when I was in school that I'd have a lot of male friends.
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As a woman, you're not accessible to every world.
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I am quite sensitive to politics, because you know, as an Arab, an Iraqi, all your life, you are very conscious of it.
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I don't think that everybody in the planet should have a child. I've never had the desire I should have a kid.
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I can't focus when there's too many things around. Whenever I used to go to the office, I used to always say, 'Tidy up.'
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People don't talk to you properly. It's the way they talk to you; they dismiss you. I think it's a combination of me being a woman and a foreigner.
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