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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.Zaha Hadid
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Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person.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.Zaha Hadid
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I don't think that architecture is only about shelter, is only about a very simple enclosure. It should be able to excite you, to calm you, to make you think.Zaha Hadid
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Of course I believe imaginative architecture can make a difference to people's lives, but I wish it was possible to divert some of the effort we put into ambitious museums and galleries into the basic architectural building blocks of society.Zaha Hadid
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As a woman, I'm expected to want everything to be nice and to be nice myself. A very English thing. I don't design nice buildings - I don't like them. I like architecture to have some raw, vital, earthy quality.Zaha Hadid
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Architecture is particularly difficult for women; there's no reason for it to be. I don't want to blame men or society, but I think it was for a long time, the clients were men, the building industry is all male.Zaha Hadid
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Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.Zaha Hadid
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I've always thought that design can have equal importance to the idea of internal architecture. Professionally, things can be very dogmatic - you do the architecture, someone else does the interiors, someone else does the furniture, the fabric, etc. But I think design is all-encompassing.Zaha Hadid
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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.Zaha Hadid
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Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, established female architects all the time.Zaha Hadid
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I really love Miami, but I don't think the architecture matches the city. It's a bit too commercial.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.Zaha Hadid
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I am equally proud of all of my architectural projects. It's always rewarding to see an ambitious design become reality.Zaha Hadid
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People say I design architectural icons. If I design a building and it becomes an icon, that's ok.Zaha Hadid
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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.Zaha Hadid
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Education, housing and hospitals are the most important things for society.Zaha Hadid
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Good education is so important. We do need to look at the way people are taught. It not just about qualifications to get a job. It's about being educated.Zaha Hadid
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I really believe in the idea of the future.Zaha Hadid
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It's very important that historic cities are allowed to reinvent their future.Zaha Hadid