ZAHA HADID

'Zaha Hadid' (Arabic: زها حديد) CBE (born October 31, 1950, Baghdad, Iraq) is a notable Iraqi-British deconstructivist architect.

Contents

Biography

Work

Exhibits

Films and Videos

Awards

External links

Biography

Born 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 teacher, Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas at the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, becoming a partner in 1977. It was with Koolhaas that she met 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 School of Architecture in Chicago, guest professorships at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Hamburg, the Knolton School of Architecture, Ohio, the Masters Studio at Columbia University, New York and the Eero Saarinen Visiting Professor of Architectural Design at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. In addition, she was made Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and Fellow of the American Institute of Architects. 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 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 work will be on show in a major exhibition at London's Design Museum, from 29 June to 25 November 2007. www.zahahadidblog.com.

Work

Much of Hadid's early work was conceptual; realized projects include:

★ Cyprus : Platia Eleftherias Square, Redsign,(2007)

★ Nordkettenbahn (aerial tramway) (2007), Innsbruck, Austria

★ Kartal Urban Transformation (2008) (projected), Istanbul, Turkey

★ Glasgow Transport Museum (2007-2009) (projected), Glasgow, Scotland

★ Maggie's centre at the Victoria Hospital (2006), Kirkcaldy,Scotland

★ High speed train station of Afragola (2006), Afragola, Italy

★ BMW Central Building (2005), Leipzig, Germany

★ Ordrupgaard annexe (2005), Copenhagen, Denmark

★ Phaeno Science Center (2005), Wolfsburg, Germany

★ Bergisel Ski Jump (2002), Innsbruck, Austria

★ Price Tower extension hybrid project (2002), Bartlesville, Oklahoma - pending

★ Hoenheim-North Terminus & Car Park (2001), Strasbourg, France

★ Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art (1998), Cincinnati, Ohio

★ Vitra Fire Station (1994), Weil am Rhein, Germany
She has also undertaken some high-profile interior work, including the ''Mind Zone'' at the Millennium Dome in London. One current project is for the 20,000-seat Aquatics Centre for London, one of the new venues being constructed for the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Exhibits

★ 2007 - (29th June - 25th November) - Design Museum, London

★ 2006 - (1st June - 29th July) – Max Protetch Gallery, Chelsea, NYC

★ 2006 - (3rd June - 25th October) – Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

★ 2003 - (4th May - 17th August) - MAK - Museum für angewandte Kunst or Museum of Applied Arts (Vienna)

★ 2001 - Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg

★ 2000 - British Pavilion at the Venice architecture biennale

★ 1997 - San Francisco MoMA

★ 1995 - Graduate School of Design at Harvard University

★ 1988 - Deconstructivist Architecture show at MoMA, New York

★ 1985 - GA Gallery, Tokyo

★ 1983 - Retrospective at the Architectural Association, London

★ 1978 - Guggenheim Museum, New York

Films and Videos

★ ''A Day with Zaha Hadid'' 2004, 52 minutes, color. New York: Michael Blackwood Productions.

Awards

★ 2003: European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture

★ 2004: Pritzker Prize

★ 2007: Thomas Jefferson Medal in Architecture

External links

★ www.zaha-hadid.com - Official site

★ (http://www.zahahadidblog.com) - official Zaha Hadid Blog for the Design Museum exhibition

★ '''I don't do nice' '' guardian.co.uk - discusses her first UK building (Maggie's Cancer Care Centre), October 9, 2006

★ ''Zaha's World:What does it mean to be a 'visionary' architect?'' - Critical Slate.com assessment of Zaha's career - June 2006

★ Building Spittelauer-Lände, Vienna - Photos by Arian Hadjikarimian

★ ''Zaha Hadid: A Diva for the Digital Age'' nytimes.com - exhibition at Guggenheim Museum in New York 2 June 2006

★ Zaha Hadid speaks at Phaeno opening vernissage.tv - 24 November 2005 (video)

★ Zaha Hadid's profile on designboom.com

★ ''Zaha Hadid: paper Architect'' blog.miragestudio7.com - November 2005

★ ''Zaha Hadid: 2004 Prizker Prize Laureate'' kultureflash.net - 22 March 2004

★ Images of Glascow Musuem of Transport - worldarab.net

★ Designs for the Strasbourg Mosque (unbuilt) 2000

★ design celebrity - More about zaha portfolio