Zaha Hadid Quotes

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Zaha Hadid

Profession : Architect

Birth : October 31, 1950

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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I made a decision when I was in school that I'd have a lot of male friends.

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

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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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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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I am sure that as a woman I can do a very good skyscraper.

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I find industrial cities exciting. I like their toughness.

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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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I always thought I was powerful, since I was a kid.

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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.

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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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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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Life in the Middle East is quite different from other places.

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As a woman, you're not accessible to every world.

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In hospital, people should be able to have time to themselves.

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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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My father was a socialist, so he would have thought that I shouldn't be a dame.

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