Zaha Hadid
Zaha Hadid
Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid, DBEwas an Iraqi-born British architect. She was the first Arab woman who received the Pritzker Architecture Prize, winning it in 2004. She received the Stirling Prize in 2010 and 2011. In 2012, she was created a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire and in 2015 she became the first woman to be awarded the RIBA Gold Medal in her own right...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionArchitect
Date of Birth31 October 1950
CityBaghdad, Iraq
I will never give myself the luxury of thinking, 'I've made it.'
What's nice about concrete is that it looks unfinished.
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Like men, women have to be diligent and work hard.
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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 like music. Country, hip-hop, R&B, sometimes classical.
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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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It's not my duty as an architect to look at it
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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 like music. Country, hip-hop, R&B, sometimes classical.
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In hospital, people should be able to have time to themselves.
space people connections
Obviously for some people there is a big connection between music and the way you can create a space.
half female students
Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, established female architects all the time.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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I find industrial cities exciting. I like their toughness.