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(born Oct. 31, 1950, Baghdad, Iraq) Iraqi-born British architect. Hadid took a degree in mathematics at the American University of Beirut (1972) and trained at London's Architectural Association. There she met the Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas, with whom she worked until she established her own firm in 1979. Her building designs — inspired by modernist movements including Cubism, Futurism, Suprematism, and Constructivism — were characterized by a sense of fragmentation, instability, and movement. Best known of her built works are the Vitra Fire Station (1989 – 93) in Weil am Rhein, Ger., and the Lois & Richard Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art (1997 – 2003) in Cincinnati, Ohio. The latter was the first American museum designed by a woman. In 2004 Hadid became the first woman to be awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize.

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(b Baghdad, 31 Oct 1950). British architect, designer and teacher, of Iraqi birth. She studied at the Architectural Association, London, from 1972 to 1977 and then joined the Office for Metropolitan Architecture founded by Rem Koolhaas, one of her teachers; there she worked on the Dutch Parliament Building extension (1978), The Hague. In 1979 she opened her own practice in London, designing a flat in Eaton Place that won a gold medal from Architectural Design in 1982. She also began teaching at the Architectural Association (1980-87). During the 1980s she entered several architectural competitions, winning those for the Hong Kong Peak (1983), the Kurf?rstendamm (1986), Berlin, and for an art and media centre in D?sseldorf (1989). She also designed furniture and interiors (1985) for Bitar, London, and interiors (1990) for the Monsoon Restaurant, Sapporo, Japan. Her work seeks to develop the traditions of Modernism; it is inspired by Cubism, Futurism and Constructivism, but perhaps most profoundly by the Suprematism of Kazimir Malevich: she believed that the possibilities inherent in the work of such figures as Malevich had only begun to be realized. Sometimes described as 'Neo-Suprematist' and as resembling spaceships, her designs are typified by fragmented convex geometrical forms that engage and define the space around them, incorporating a Futurist sense of dynamic movement. Many of her ideas were executed as large oil paintings (e.g. Night and Day, c. 1985), an urban landscape where space seems to be folding back over itself. While such works often contain an element of fantasy, Hadid insisted on the buildability of her projects, an assessment confirmed by her engineering consultants. Nevertheless few of her major designs of the 1980s were built. Her first significant constructed work was the Vitra fire station (1989-93) at Weil am Rhein, Germany, which has been described as having the appearance of 'an exploding set of parallelograms' (Winter, 1993), containing the sharp angles of her previous designs and including large expanses of glass. From a distance its roof line resembles the wings of a bird; the interior reflects the tension between space and form familiar in her unexecuted designs. Hadid continued to teach in universities around the world, including Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, where she held the Kenzo Tange Chair at the Graduate School of Design. In 1994 she won the important Cardiff Bay Opera House competition.

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(1950– )

Iraqi architect, trained at the Architectural Association, London, under Koolhaas, and working in the UK. She has long been associated with Deconstructivism. Her work often seems restless, even fragmented, with surfaces apparently slashed as though with a knife, and bereft of visual stability, but some commentators have noted strengths in her designs based on an apparent expansion of energy-charged space, extending outwards into infinity though others would dispute anything of the sort. Typical of her rather jagged style are the designs for The Peak Club, Kowloon, Hong Kong (1982–3—Competition drawings), the realized Monsoon Bar, Sapporo, Japan (1988–9), the Vitra Fire Station, Weil-am-Rhein (1991–3), and the Cardiff Opera House (1993–5—Competition drawings). Other works include extensions to the Dutch Parliament buildings, The Hague (1978–9), IBA housing, Berlin (1983), Landesgartenschau Pavilion, Weil-am-Rhein (1998–9), and the Contemporary Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH, USA (2000–3). Another Centre for Contemporary Art in Rome (begun 2001) was completed in 2005. Other works include the BMW plant, Leipzig (2002–5), the Science Centre, Wolfsburg (2002–5), the Science Hub Master-Plan, Singapore (2002–5), and various schemes, e.g. the Guggenheim Museum, Taichung, Taiwan (from 2003), the Maggie Centre, Kirkcaldy, Fife (from 2003), the Sheikh Zaayed Bridge, Abu Dhabi (from 2004), a gallery, bar, and apartments, Hoxton Square, London (from 2004), Project Herault Culture Sport, Montpelier, France (2003), the Riverside Museum, Glasgow (from 2004 expected to be completed 2009), the headquarters for the Architecture Foundation Centre, Southwark, London (from 2005), and the concert-hall and casino, Basel, Switzerland (from 2005).

Bibliography

  • Hadid et al. (2001)
  • Jencks (2002); Mr (1995)
  • Mönninger et al. (2000)
  • Schumacher & Fontana-Giusti (eds.) (2004)

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Zaha Hadid
Born 31 October 1950 (1950-10-31) (age 59)
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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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 has been on the Board of Trustees of The Architecture Foundation. 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]

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]

In 2007, Zaha Hadid designed the Moon System Sofa for leading Italian furniture manufacturer B&B Italia.[5]

Architectural work

Conceptual projects

Completed projects

Ongoing and future projects

Other work includes the new departmental records building, Pierres vives, for Hérault in Montpellier.[10] 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.[11][12][13] She has been commissioned to design new buildings for Evelyn Grace Academy, Brixton.[14]

Exhibitions

Films and Videos

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

Awards

Further reading

References

  1. ^ AIA. "Convention 2008". AIA. pp. 14. http://www.aia.org/aiaucmp/groups/aia/documents/pdf/aias075757.pdf. Retrieved 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 2009-01-17. 
  4. ^ Lacoste
  5. ^ www.bebitalia.it
  6. ^ "Tondonia Winery Pavillion / Zaha Hadid". archdaily. 2009-05-14. http://www.archdaily.com/22061/tondonia-winery-pavillion-zaha-hadid/. Retrieved 2009-08-07. 
  7. ^ Afragola station delayed. Today's Railways Europe. December 2008. p. 52. 
  8. ^ "Maxxi_Museo Nazionale Delle Arti Del Xxi Secolo". Darc.beniculturali.it. http://www.maxxi.beniculturali.it/english/index.htm. Retrieved 2009-01-17. 
  9. ^ "Photo from Reuters Pictures". Reuters Daylife. http://www.daylife.com/photo/01hJ7Bx1Ow9mp/Zaha_Hadid. Retrieved 2009-01-17. 
  10. ^ "Pierres vive" (in French). http://mag.herault.fr/2008/11/24/la-clause-d-insertion-pierres-vives-c-est-quoi. Retrieved 2009-03-11. 
  11. ^ Bonnie Chen In the frame May 25, 2009 The Standard
  12. ^ PolyU appoints Ms Zaha Hadid as Architect of Innovation Tower December 12, 2007 Hong Kong Polytechnic University
  13. ^ Hadid goes back to Hong Kong Zaha Hadid's Innovation Tower in Hong Kong Friday 14 Dec 2007 World Architecture News.com
  14. ^ Evelyn Grace Academy: Buildings & facilities
  15. ^ "D A R C - Zaha Hadid". Darc.beniculturali.it. http://www.darc.beniculturali.it/zaha_hadid/index.html. Retrieved 2009-01-17. 

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