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• Men think a woman should not have an opinion.

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• Like men, women have to be diligent and work hard.

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

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• It’s very important that historic cities are allowed to reinvent their future.

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

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• I’m into fashion because it contains the mood of the day, of the moment – like music, literature, and art.

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• I’m a pushover. I make allowances for people if I like them.

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• I will never give myself the luxury of thinking, ‘I’ve made it.’

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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 was always unusual-looking; I wouldn’t say beautiful.

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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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• 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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• I really love Miami, but I don’t think the architecture matches the city. It’s a bit too commercial.

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• I really believe in the idea of the future.

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

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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 have always appreciated those who dare to experiment with materials and proportions.

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• I like music. Country, hip-hop, R&B, sometimes classical.

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• I find industrial cities exciting. I like their toughness.

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Zaha Hadid (75)

Birth:	31st October, 1950
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Architect

About

Zaha Hadid is an Iraqi-British architect. She received the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2004 the first woman to do so and the Stirling Prize in 2010 and 2011. Her buildings are distinctively futuristic, characterized by the "powerful, curving forms of her elongated structures" with "multiple perspective points and fragmented geometry to evoke the chaos of modern life". She is currently professor at the University of Applied Arts Vienna in Austria.

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