ZAHA HADID:The 1st Muslim Woman
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 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 in 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 and first Muslim[2] 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 honoured 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 a Victorian former
school building in Clerkenwell, London.
In 2008, she ranked 69th on the Forbes list of "The
World's 100 Most Powerful Women".[3] On 2 January 2009, she was the guest
editor of the BBC's flagship morning radio news programme, Today.[4]
In 2010 she was named by Time magazine as influential
thinker in the 2010 TIME 100 issue.[5] In September 2010, The British magazine
New Statesman listed Zaha Hadid at number 42 in their annual survey of
"The World's 50 Most Influential Figures 2010".[6]
She won the Stirling Prize two years running: in 2010, for
one of her most celebrated works, the Maxxi in Rome, and in 2011 for the Evelyn
Grace Academy, a Z-shapes school in Brixton
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.
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