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Dame

Zaha Hadid

DBE RA

Zaha Hadid in Heydar Aliyev Cultural center in Baku nov 2013

Born Zaha Mohammad Hadid

31 October 1950

Baghdad, Iraq

Died 31 March 2016 (aged 65)

Miami, Florida, United States

Nationality Iraqi, British

 Alma mater American University of Beirut

Architectural Association School of Architecture,

London

Occupation Architect

Parent(s) Mohammed Hadid

Wajeeha Sabonji

Practice Zaha Hadid Architects

Buildings MAXXI, Bridge Pavilion, Maggie's Centre, Contemporary

Arts Center

Website www.zaha-hadid.com

Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid DBE RA (Arabic: ‫ زها حديد‬Zahā Ḥadīd; 31 October 1950 – 31 March
2016) was an Iraqi-British architect.
She was the first woman to receive the Pritzker Architecture Prize, in 2004.[1] She received the UK's
most prestigious architectural award, the Stirling Prize, in 2010 and 2011. In 2012, she was made
a Dame by Elizabeth IIfor services to architecture, and in 2015 she became the first and only woman
to be awarded the Royal Gold Medalfrom the Royal Institute of British Architects.[2][3]
She was described by The Guardian of London as the "Queen of the curve",[4] who "liberated
architectural geometry, giving it a whole new expressive identity".[5] Her major works include the
aquatic centre for the London 2012 Olympics, Michigan State University's Broad Art Museum in the
US, the Guangzhou Opera House in China,[6]and the Beijing Daxing International Airport, also in
China.[7] Some of her awards have been presented posthumously, including the statuette for
the 2017 Brit Awards. Several of her buildings were still under construction at the time of her death,
including the Daxing airport and the Al Wakrah Stadium in Qatar, a venue for the 2022 FIFA World
Cup.[8][9]

Contents

 1Early life and academic career

 2Early buildings (1991–2005)
o 2.1Vitra Fire Station (1991–1993)
o 2.2Bergisel Ski Jump (1999–2002)
o 2.3Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati (1997–2000)
o 2.4Phaeno Science Center (2000–2005)
o 2.5Ordrupgaard Museum extension (2001–2005)
 o 2.6BMW Administration Building (2001–2005)
 3Major projects (2006–2010)
o 3.1Zaragoza Bridge Pavilion (2005–2008)
o 3.2Sheikh Zayed Bridge (1997–2010)
o 3.3National Museum of Arts of the 21st Century (MAXXI), Rome, Italy (1998–2010)
o 3.4Guangzhou Opera House (2003–2010)
 4Major projects (2011–2012)
o 4.1Riverside Museum, Glasgow, Scotland (2004–2011)
o 4.2London Olympics Aquatics Centre (2005–2011)
o 4.3Broad Art Museum, East Lansing, Michigan (2007–2012)
o 4.4Galaxy SOHO, Beijing, China (2008–2012)
 5Last completed major projects (2013–2016)
o 5.1Heydar Aliyev Center, Baku Azerbaijan (2007–2013)
o 5.2Dongdaemun Design Plaza, Seoul, Korea (2007–2013)
o 5.3Library and Learning Center, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Vienna, Austria
(2008–2013)
o 5.4Innovation Tower, Hong Kong Polytechnic University (2007–2014)
o 5.5Wangjing SOHO Tower, Beijing (2009–2014)
o 5.6Port Authority, Antwerp, Belgium (2016)
 6Death
 7Posthumous major projects (2016–present)
o 7.1Salerno Maritime Terminal in Salerno, Italy (2000–2016)
o 7.2Scorpion Tower of Miami
o 7.3Skyscraper re-purposing of 666 Fifth Avenue (2015–incomplete)
 8Teaching
 9Interior architecture and product design
 10Reputation
o 10.1Qatar controversy
 11Style
 12Awards and honors
 13List of architectural works
o 13.1Conceptual projects
o 13.2Completed projects (selection)
 13.2.1Incomplete projects
o 13.3Non-architectural work
 13.3.1Museum exhibitions
 13.3.2Other work
 14See also
 15Bibliography
 16References
 17External links

Early life and academic career[edit]

Zaha Hadid was born on 31 October 1950 in Baghdad, Iraq, to an upper class Iraqi family.[10] Her
father, Muhammad al-Hajj Husayn Hadid, was a wealthy industrialist from Mosul. He co-founded the
left-liberal al-Ahali group in 1932. The group was a significant political organisation in the 1930s and
1940s.[10] He was the co-founder of the National Democratic Party in Iraq[10] and served as minister of
finance after the overthrow of the monarch after the 1958 Iraqi coup d'état for the government of
General Abd al-Karim Qasim. Her mother, Wajiha al-Sabunji, was an artist from Mosul[11] while her
brother Foulath Hadid was a writer, accountant and expert on Arab affairs.[12] In the 1960s Hadid
attended boarding schools in England and Switzerland.[13][14]
Hadid studied mathematics at the American University of Beirut before moving, in 1972, to London
to study at the Architectural Association School of Architecture.[11] There she studied with Rem
Koolhaas, Elia Zenghelis and Bernard Tschumi.[10] Her former professor, Koolhaas, described her at
graduation as "a planet in her own orbit."[10] Zenghelis described her as the most outstanding pupil he
ever taught. 'We called her the inventor of the 89 degrees. Nothing was ever at 90 degrees. She had
spectacular vision. All the buildings were exploding into tiny little pieces." He recalled that she was
less interested in details, such as staircases. "The way she drew a staircase you would smash your
head against the ceiling, and the space was reducing and reducing, and you would end up in the
upper corner of the ceiling. She couldn't care about tiny details. Her mind was on the broader
pictures—when it came to the joinery she knew we could fix that later. She was right.'[10] Her fourth-
year student project was a painting of a hotel in the form of a bridge, inspired by the works of the
Russian suprematistartist Kazimir Malevich.[15]
After graduation in 1977, she went to work for her former professors, Koolhaas and Zenghelis, at
the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.[16] Through her association
with Koolhaas, she met the architectural engineer Peter Rice, who gave her support and
encouragement.[10] Hadid became a naturalised citizen of the United Kingdom.[11][17] She opened her
own architectural firm, Zaha Hadid Architects, in London in 1980.[18]
She then began her career teaching architecture, first at the Architectural Association, then, over the
years at Harvard Graduate School of Design, Cambridge University, the University of Chicago,
the Hochschule für bildende Künste in Hamburg, the University of Illinois at Chicago, and Columbia
University. She earned her early reputation with her lecturing and colourful and radical early designs
and projects, which were widely published in architectural journals but remained largely unbuilt. Her
ambitious but unbuilt projects included a plan for Peak in Hong Kong (1983), and a plan for an opera
house in Cardiff, Wales, (1994). The Cardiff experience was particularly discouraging; her design
was chosen as the best by the competition jury, but the Welsh government refused to pay for it, and
the commission was given to a different and less ambitious architect.[19] Her reputation in this period
rested largely upon her teaching and the imaginative and colourful paintings she made of her
proposed buildings. Her international reputation was greatly enhanced in 1988 when she was
chosen to show her drawings and paintings as one of seven architects chosen to participate in the
exhibition "Deconstructivism in Architecture" curated by Philip Johnson and Mark Wigley at New
York's Museum of Modern Art.[6][20]