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| Ar. Zaha Hadid |
Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid, was born 31 October 1950. She is an Iraqi-British Architect. She is currently a professor at the University of Applied Arts Vienna in Austria.
EARLY LIFE
She is a naturalized citizen of the United Kingdom. She grew up in one of Baghdad's first Bauhaus-inspired buildings during an era in which ;modernism connoted glamour and progressive thinking. She studied mathematics at the American University of Beirut before moving to study at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, she became a partner in 1977.
ARCHITECTURAL STYLE AND CAREER
Her architectural design firm, Zaha Hadid Architects, employs more than 350 people, and is headquartered in a Victorian former school building in Clerkenwell, London. Her buildings are distinctively neo-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.Through her association with Koolhaas, she met Peter Rice, the engineer who gave her support and encouragement early on at a time when her work seemed difficult. In 1980, she established her own London-based practice.
Hadid has taught at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where she was the Kenzo Tange Professorship and the Sullivan Chair at the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Architecture. She also served as guest professor at the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg (HFBK Hamburg), the Knowlton School of Architecture at Ohio State University, the Masters Studio at Columbia University, and the Eero Saarinen Visiting Professor of Architectural Design at the Yale School of Architecture. From 2000 on, Hadid has been a guest professor at The University of Applied Arts – Vienna, in the Zaha Hadid Master Class Vertical-Studio. Hadid was named an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and an honorary fellow of the American Institute of Architects. She has been on the board of trustees of The Architecture Foundation.
She has also worked on some high-profile interior work, including the Mind Zone at the Millennium Dome in London as well as creating fluid furniture installations within the Georgian surroundings of Home House private members club in Marylebone, 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.In the same year, she also collaborated with the brassware manufacturer Triflow Concepts to produce two new designs in her signature parametric architectural style.
AWARDS
In 2004 she became
the first woman recipient of the Pritzker Architecture Prize. She received
the Stirling Prize in 2010 and 2011. In 2012 she was made a dame. In 2014 the
Heydar Aliyev Cultural Centre, designed by her, won the Museum Design of
the Year Award, making her the first woman to win the top prize in that
competition. In 2015 she became the first woman to be awarded the RIBA Gold Medal
in her own right.
Educational Purposes only.
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