Zaha Hadid

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Interior of Phaeno Science Center in Wolfsburg, Germany

Bergisel Ski Jump, Innsbruck

BMW Central Building, Leipzig

Vitra fire station, Weil am Rhein, Germany

Maggie's Centre, Kirkcaldy

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

1 Biography
2 Work
3 Exhibits
4 Films and Videos
5 Awards
6 Further reading
7 External links

[edit] Biography

Zaha Hadid was born October 31, 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 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, at the Ohio State University, 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.

[edit] Work

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

Guggenheim-Hermitage Vilnius, Vilnius, Lithuania, (2008-) - not realized
Eli and Edythe Broad Museum, Michigan State University, (2008-)
CMA CGM Tower, Marseille, France, (2007-2009)
Bridge Pavilion (2008), Zaragoza, Spain
Kartal Urban Transformation (2008) (projected), Istanbul, Turkey
Riverside Museum (2007-2011) (projected) development of Glasgow Transport Museum, Scotland
Cyprus : Eleftheria square, Redsign,(2007)
Nordkettenbahn (aerial tramway) (2007), Innsbruck, Austria
Nuragic and Contemporary art museum (2006) (under construction), Cagliari, Italy
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. Ongoing projects include: The 20,000-seat Aquatics Centre for London, one of the new venues being constructed for the 2012 Summer Olympics. While she was previously slated for work in the Docklands area of Melbourne, it has since been announced that architect Norman Foster will be designing it instead. The MAXXI (National Museum of the 21st Century Arts) in Rome [1]. The Heydar Aliyev Cultural Centre in Baku, Azerbaijan [2]. Zaha Hadid's project was named as the best for the Vilnius Guggenheim Hermitage Museum in 2008.

[edit] Exhibits

2007 - (29th June - 25th November) - Design Museum, London
2006 - (1st June - 29th July) – Ma10 Mx 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)
2002 - (10 May-11 August) Centro nazionale per le arti contemporanee, Rome [3]
2001 - Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg
2000 - British Pavilion at the Venice 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