Zaha Hadid

Zaha Hadid (), CBE (born 31 October 1950) is a notable British Iraqi deconstructivist architect.

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. 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".Forbes: The World's 100 Most Powerful Women On 2 January 2009, she was the guest editor of the BBC's flagship morning radio news programme, Today.

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.Lacoste

In 2007, Zaha Hadid designed the Moon System Sofa for leading Italian furniture manufacturer B&B Italia.www.bebitalia.it

Architectural work

Conceptual projects

• Guggenheim-Hermitage Vilnius, Vilnius, Lithuania, (2008-) - not realized
• Price Tower extension hybrid project (2002), Bartlesville, Oklahoma - pending
• Kartal-Pendik Waterfront Regeneration, Istanbul, Turkey

Completed projects

• J. S. Bach Pavilion, Manchester International Festival (2009), Manchester, UK
• Eli and Edythe Broad Museum, Michigan State University, (2008-)
• CMA CGM Tower, Marseille, France, (2007-2009)
• Chanel Mobile Art Pavilion (Worldwide) Tokyo, Hong Kong, New York, London, Paris, Moscow, (2006-2008)
• Tondonia Winery Pavilion (2001-2006), Haro, Spain
• Bridge Pavilion (2008), Zaragoza, Spain
• Cyprus: Eleftheria square, redesign, (2007)
• Nordkettenbahn ( cable car) (2007), Innsbruck, Austria
• sfasf 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
• Hoenheim-North Terminus & Car Park (2001), Hoenheim, France
• Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art (1998), Cincinnati, Ohio
• Vitra Fire Station (1994), Weil am Rhein, Germany

Ongoing and future projects

• Napoli Afragola railway station, Italy (completion delayed to 2011)
• Nuragic and Contemporary art museum (2006) (under construction), Cagliari, Italy
• Mandarin Oriental Dellis Cay, Villa D (2012) (private home under construction), Dellis Cay, Turks & Caicos Islands
• Riverside Museum (2007-2011) (projected) development of Glasgow Transport Museum, Scotland
• London Aquatics Centre, London, UK, (2008-2013), a 17,500-seat venue for the 2012 Summer Olympics.
• MAXXI - National Museum of the 21st Century Arts in Rome.
• Heydar Aliyev Cultural Centre in Baku, Azerbaijan.

Other work includes the new departmental records building, Pierres vives, for Hérault in Montpellier. 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.Bonnie Chen In the frame May 25, 2009 The StandardPolyU appoints Ms Zaha Hadid as Architect of Innovation Tower December 12, 2007 Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityHadid goes back to Hong Kong Zaha Hadid's Innovation Tower in Hong Kong Friday 14 Dec 2007 World Architecture News.com She has been commissioned to design new buildings for Evelyn Grace Academy, Brixton.Evelyn Grace Academy: Buildings & facilities

Exhibitions

• 2007 - (29 June - 25 November) - Design Museum, London
• 2006 - (1 June - 29 July) – Ma10 Mx Protetch Gallery, Chelsea, NYC
• 2006 - (3 June - 25 October) – Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
• 2003 - (4 May - 17 August) - MAK - Museum für angewandte Kunst or Museum of Applied Arts (Vienna)
• 2002 - (10 May-11 August) Centro nazionale per le arti contemporanee, Rome
• 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

Films and Videos

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

Awards

• 2001: Equerre d'argent Prize, special mention
• 2003: European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture
• 2004: Pritzker Prize
• 2007: Thomas Jefferson Medal in Architecture

Further reading

References

External links

• www.zaha-hadid.com - Official site
• Official Zaha Hadid Blog for the Design Museum exhibition
• Zaha Hadid at nou-sera.com
• Mandarin Oriental Dellis Cay, Villa D
• Online profile of Zaha Hadid Architects, UK
• '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
• Zaha Hadid: A Diva for the Digital Age nytimes.com - exhibition at Guggenheim Museum in New York 2 June 2006
• Zaha Hadid's profile on designboom.com
• NY Times Slideshow of Zaha Hadid's works
• Terminal Hoenheim Nord
• London 2012 Aquatics Centre By Zaha Hadid
• Manchester International Festival: JS Bach / Zaha Hadid Architects

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