Zaha Hadid

Zaha Hadid
Born 31 October 1950 (1950-10-31) (age 60)
Baghdad, Iraq
Nationality 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, CBE (Arabic: زها حديد‎; born 31 October 1950) is an British Iraqi deconstructivist architect.

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Life and career

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 a 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 350 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]

In 2010 she was also named by Time magazine as influential thinker in the 2010 TIME 100 issue.[4]

Hadid is the designer of the Dongdaemun Design Plaza & Park in Seoul, South Korea, which is expected to be the centerpiece of the festivities for the city's designation as World Design Capital 2010. The complex is scheduled to be completed in 2011.

Non-architectural work

She has also undertaken some high-profile interior work, including the Mind Zone and Feet 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.[5]

In 2007, Zaha Hadid designed the Moon System Sofa for leading Italian furniture manufacturer B&B Italia.[6]

Architectural work

Conceptual projects

Completed projects

Ongoing and future projects

Recently, Hadid has been commissioned by the Iraqi government to design the new building for the Central Bank of Iraq. This project will be her first project for her native country.[13]

Other work includes the new departmental records building, Pierres vives, for Hérault in Montpellier.[14]

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.[15][16][17] She has been commissioned to design new buildings for Evelyn Grace Academy, Brixton.[18]

Exhibitions

Films and Videos

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. ↑ Time 100 - Thinkers : Zaha Hadid
  5. ↑ Lacoste
  6. ↑ www.bebitalia.it
  7. ↑ "Tondonia Winery Pavillion / Zaha Hadid". archdaily. 2009-05-14. http://www.archdaily.com/22061/tondonia-winery-pavillion-zaha-hadid/. Retrieved 2009-08-07. 
  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. ↑ Afragola station delayed. Today's Railways Europe. December 2008. p. 52. 
  10. ↑ Michigan State University: World-class building under way with Broad Art Museum groundbreaking, retrieved 3 April 2010
  11. ↑ "Photo from Reuters Pictures". Reuters Daylife. http://www.daylife.com/photo/01hJ7Bx1Ow9mp/Zaha_Hadid. Retrieved 2009-01-17. 
  12. ↑ http://wdc2010.seoul.go.kr/eng/with/busi_ddp.jsp
  13. ↑ [1]
  14. ↑ "Pierres vive" (in French). http://mag.herault.fr/2008/11/24/la-clause-d-insertion-pierres-vives-c-est-quoi. Retrieved 2009-03-11. 
  15. ↑ Bonnie Chen In the frame May 25, 2009 The Standard
  16. ↑ PolyU appoints Ms Zaha Hadid as Architect of Innovation Tower December 12, 2007 Hong Kong Polytechnic University
  17. ↑ Hadid goes back to Hong Kong Z aha Hadid's Innovation Tower in Hong Kong Friday 14 Dec 2007 World Architecture News.com
  18. ↑ [http://www.evelyngraceacademy.org/secondary/Information_about_the_academy/Building_and_facilities/ Evelyn Grace Academy: Buildings & facilities]
  19. ↑ "D A R C - Zaha Hadid". Darc.beniculturali.it. http://www.darc.beniculturali.it/zaha_hadid/index.html. Retrieved 2009-01-17. 
  20. ↑ "RIBA Awards". e-architects. http://www.e-architect.co.uk/awards/riba_awards_2005.htm. Retrieved 2009-09-21. 
  21. ↑ 21.0 21.1 "RIBA European Awards". RIBA. http://www.architecture.com/Awards/RIBAEuropeanAwards/RIBAEuropeanAwards.aspx. Retrieved 2009-09-21. 
  22. ↑ "2010 RIBA Award Winners Announced". Bustler. http://www.bustler.net/index.php/article/2010_riba_award_winners_announced/. Retrieved 2010-05-28. 

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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 and 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) · Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa / SANAA (2010)