ZAHA HADID
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Born in Baghdad in 1950, Hadid studied mathematics at Beirut University before enrolling in London's radical Association School of Architecture (AA) in 1972.
Upon graduation, Hadid became a partner at the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, taught at AA with former mentors Koolhaas and Zenghelis, and led her own studio at AA until 1987. Hadid began her own practice in 1979 with the design of an apartment in Eaton Place, London. Her first major work was a winning entry for The Peak Club in Kowloon, Hong Kong in 1983, followed by first place awards for the Kufurstendamm, in Berlin (1986), KMR, Art and Media Centre in Dusseldorf (1989), and Cardiff Bay Opera House (1994).
While none of these design plans materialized into actual buildings due to various political, economic and social conflicts surrounding each project, the blueprints for these designs ultimately fostered Hadid's reputation for being completely novel and daring with her use of space and shape, and for envisioning structures in places where others believed it impossible to build.
Zaha Hadid was awarded the Pritzker Prize in 2004. Her work has received global recognition from the Mies van der Rohe Foundation of European Architecture, the American Institute of Architects, the Royal Institute of British Architects, the Royal Academy of Arts, the International Olympic Committee for Design, the Austrian Commission for Science & Art and the Thomas Jefferson Foundation.
