Zaha Hadid

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Zaha Hadid
Born 31 October 1950 (1950-10-31) (age 58)
Baghdad, Iraq
Nationality British Iraqi
Occupation architect
Bridge Pavilion in Zaragoza, Spain
Bergisel Ski Jump, Innsbruck, Austria
BMW Central Building, Leipzig, Germany
Vitra fire station, Weil am Rhein, Germany
Maggie's Centre, Kirkcaldy
Contemporary Arts Center Hadid's first American work in Cincinnati, Ohio

Zaha Hadid (Arabic: زها حديد‎), CBE (born 31 October 1950) is a notable British Iraqi deconstructivist architect.

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[edit] Biography

Zaha Hadid was born in 1950 in Baghdad, Iraq. She received a degree in mathematics from the American University of Beirut before moving to study at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London. After graduating she worked with her former teachers, Rem Koolhaas and Elia Zenghelis at the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, becoming a partner in 1977. It was with Koolhaas that she met the engineer Peter Rice who gave her support and encouragement early on, at a time when her work seemed difficult to build. In 1980 she established her own London-based practice. During the 1980s she also taught at the Architectural Association. She has also taught at prestigious institutions around the world; she held the Kenzo Tange Chair at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, the Sullivan Chair at the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Architecture, guest professorships at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Hamburg, the Knowlton School of Architecture, at The Ohio State University, the Masters Studio at Columbia University, New York and the Eero Saarinen Visiting Professor of Architectural Design at the Yale School of Architecture, New Haven, Connecticut. In addition, she was made Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and an Honorary Fellow of the American Institute of Architects.[1] She is currently Professor at the University of Applied Arts Vienna in Austria.

A winner of many international competitions, theoretically influential and groundbreaking, a number of Hadid's winning designs were initially never built: notably, The Peak Club in Hong Kong (1983) and the Cardiff Bay Opera House in Wales (1994). In 2002 Hadid won the international design competition to design Singapore's one-north masterplan. In 2005, her design won the competition for the new city casino of Basel, Switzerland. In 2004 Hadid became the first female recipient of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, architecture's equivalent of the Nobel Prize. Previously, she had been awarded an CBE for services to architecture. She is a member of the editorial board of the Encyclopædia Britannica. In 2006, Hadid was honored with a retrospective spanning her entire work at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. In that year she also received an Honorary Degree from the American University of Beirut.

Zaha Hadid's architectural design firm - Zaha Hadid Architects - is over 250 people strong, headquartered in London.

In 2008, she ranked 69th on the Forbes list of "The World's 100 Most Powerful Women".[2] On 2 January 2009, she was the guest editor of the BBC's flagship morning radio news programme, Today.[3]

[edit] Non-architectural work

She has also undertaken some high-profile interior work, including the Mind Zone at the Millennium Dome in London and the Z.CAR hydrogen-powered, three-wheeled automobile. In 2009, she worked with the clothing brand Lacoste, to create a new, high fashion, and advanced boot.[4]

[edit] Architectural work

[edit] Conceptual projects

[edit] Completed projects

[edit] Ongoing and future projects

Other work includes the new departmental records building, Pierres vives, for Hérault in Montpellier.[8] Zaha Hadid's project was named as the best for the Vilnius Guggenheim Hermitage Museum in 2008. She designed the Innovation Tower for Hong Kong Polytechnic University, scheduled for completion in 2011, and the Chanel Mobile Art Pavilion that was displayed in Hong Kong in 2008.[9][10][11] She has been commissioned to design new buildings for Evelyn Grace Academy, Brixton.[12]

[edit] Exhibitions

[edit] Films and Videos

  • A Day with Zaha Hadid 2004, 52 minutes, colour. New York: Michael Blackwood Productions.

[edit] Awards

[edit] Further reading

[edit] References

  1. ^ AIA. "Convention 2008" (in English). AIA. 14. http://www.aia.org/aiaucmp/groups/aia/documents/pdf/aias075757.pdf. Retrieved on 2009-05-05. 
  2. ^ Forbes: The World's 100 Most Powerful Women
  3. ^ "Guest editor: Zaha Hadid". BBC. 2008-12-27. http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_7785000/7785759.stm. Retrieved on 2009-01-17. 
  4. ^ Lacoste
  5. ^ Afragola station delayed. Today's Railways Europe. December 2008. p. 52. 
  6. ^ "Maxxi_Museo Nazionale Delle Arti Del Xxi Secolo". Darc.beniculturali.it. http://www.darc.beniculturali.it/MAXXI/english/index.htm. Retrieved on 2009-01-17. 
  7. ^ "Photo from Reuters Pictures". Reuters Daylife. http://www.daylife.com/photo/01hJ7Bx1Ow9mp/Zaha_Hadid. Retrieved on 2009-01-17. 
  8. ^ "Pierres vive" (in French). http://mag.herault.fr/2008/11/24/la-clause-d-insertion-pierres-vives-c-est-quoi. Retrieved on 2009-03-11. 
  9. ^ Bonnie Chen In the frame May 25, 2009 The Standard
  10. ^ PolyU appoints Ms Zaha Hadid as Architect of Innovation Tower December 12, 2007 Hong Kong Polytechnic University
  11. ^ Hadid goes back to Hong Kong Zaha Hadid's Innovation Tower in Hong Kong Friday 14 Dec 2007 World Architecture News.com
  12. ^ Evelyn Grace Academy: Buildings & facilities
  13. ^ "D A R C - Zaha Hadid". Darc.beniculturali.it. http://www.darc.beniculturali.it/zaha_hadid/index.html. Retrieved on 2009-01-17. 

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Pritzker Prize laureates

Philip Johnson (1979) · Luis Barragán (1980) · James Stirling (1981) · Kevin Roche (1982) · I. M. Pei (1983) · Richard Meier (1984) · Hans Hollein (1985) · Gottfried Böhm (1986) · Kenzo Tange (1987) · Gordon Bunshaft / Oscar Niemeyer (1988) · Frank Gehry (1989) · Aldo Rossi (1990) · Robert Venturi (1991) · Álvaro Siza Vieira (1992) · Fumihiko Maki (1993) · Christian de Portzamparc (1994) · Tadao Ando (1995) · Rafael Moneo (1996) · Sverre Fehn (1997) · Renzo Piano (1998) · Norman Foster (1999) · Rem Koolhaas (2000) · Herzog & de Meuron (2001) · Glenn Murcutt (2002) · Jørn Utzon (2003) · Zaha Hadid (2004) · Thom Mayne (2005) · Paulo Mendes da Rocha (2006) · Richard Rogers (2007) · Jean Nouvel (2008) · Peter Zumthor (2009)
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