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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 don’t particularly like showing furniture on pedestals, but for whatever reasons you always have to in museums.

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

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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 am equally proud of all of my architectural projects. It’s always rewarding to see an ambitious design become reality.

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

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• Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, established female architects all the time.

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• For many years, I hated nature. As a student, I refused to put a plant anywhere – a living plant, that is. Dead plants were OK.

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

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• Being Iraqi taught me to be very cautious.

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• Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It’s very tough.

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

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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.

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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.

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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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