Zaha Hadid

Zaha Hadid

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Who was zaha hadid?

Biography

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Important works by Zaha Hadid

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Who was Zaha Hadid?

Zaha Mohammad Hadid was an Iraqi-British architect and designer, recognized as one of the greatest architects of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Described by The Guardian as the "queen of curves" who "liberated architectural geometry, giving it a whole new expressive identity", Hadid designed buildings around the world.

"It's very difficult to come up with ideas. When they appear, you have to fight for them."

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Zaha Hadid biography

Zaha Hadid was born in Baghdad on October 31, 1950 and died in Miami on March 31, 2016.Hadid came from a middle-class family. Her father, Muhammad al-Hajj Husayn Hadid, was a wealthy industrialist from Mosul and her mother, Wajiha al-Sabunji, was an artist from Mosul. Zaha had two brothers, Haytham Hadid and Foulath Hadid. Hadid died on March 31, 2016, at the age of 65, of a heart attack at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami, Florida.

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Hadid studied mathematics at the American University of Beirut before moving to London in 1972, where she studied at the Architectural Association School of Architecture. After graduating in 1977, she began working with her former teachers, Koolhaas and Zenghelis, at the Office for Metropolitan Architecture in Rotterdam.

Hadid has taught architecture at several colleges. She began at the Architectural Association, and later taught at Harvard University, Cambridge University, the University of Chicago, the University of Fine Arts Hamburg, and Columbia University.

Important works by Zaha Hadid

Guangzhou Opera House, China

Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Rome

London Aquatics Centre for the 2012 Olympics

Awards received

The main awards she received were:

• The Pritzker Prize;
• The Stirling Prize;
• She was appointed a Dame of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II;
• She won the Gold Medal of the Royal Institute of British Architects.

Stirling Prize (2010/2011)

Pritzker Prize (2004)

Gold Medal (2015)

Dame of the Order (2012)

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• https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medalha_de_Ouro_do_RIBA
• https://www.bebitalia.com/en-us/zaha-hadid