Hadid, Zaha
Currently alive, at 57 years of age.
Nationality: Iraqi
Categories: Architects
Iraqi-British deconstructivist architect.
1950 - Born on the 31st of October in Baghdad, Iraq.
Received a degree in mathematics from the American University of Beirut.
Studied at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London.
1977 - Worked with former teacher, Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas at the Office for Metropolitan Architecture.
1980 - She established her own London-based practice.
1983 - Designed The Peak Club in Hong Kong (1983) and the Cardiff Bay Opera House in Wales (1994).
2002 - Won the international design competition to design Singapore's one-north masterplan.
2003 - Designed Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art in Cincinnati.
2004 - Became the first female recipient of the Pritzker Architecture Prize.
2005 - Her design won the competition for the new city casino of Basel, Switzerland.
Awarded a CBE for services to architecture.
She is a member of the editorial board of the Encyclopædia Britannica.
2006 - Honoured with a retrospective spanning her entire work at the Guggenheim Museum in New York.
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Project Vitra: Sites, Products, Authors, Museum, Collection, Signs (Paperback - Jul 1, 2008) Project Vitra began in 1957 in Birsfelden near Basel with the production of the furniture of Charles and Ray Eames and George Nelson. Today Vitra is active and known throughout the world for its... Usually ships in 24 hours |
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Zaha Hadid by Detlef Mertins and Patrik Schumacher (Paperback - Aug 15, 2006) The first woman to be awarded the distinguished Pritzker Architecture Prize, in 2004, Zaha Hadid is internationally known for projects that have literally "shifted the geometry of buildings." The...  Usually ships in 24 hours |
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Zaha Hadid: BMW Central Building Source Book in Architecture 7 (Source Books in Architecture) (Paperback - Aug 10, 2006) Zaha Hadidâs highly inventive and seemingly unbuildable designs have defied conventional ideas of architectural space and construction. The BMW Central Building in Leipzig, Germany is no... Usually ships in 24 hours |
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Zaha Hadid: The Complete Buildings and Projects by Zaha Hadid (Paperback - Oct 15, 1998) With her most recent commission, Cincinnati's Contemporary Arts Center, architect Zaha Hadid becomes the first woman ever to design an American museum. This long awaited first monograph on one of... Usually ships in 24 hours |
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Hans Ulrich Obrist&Zaha Hadid: The Conversation Series by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Zaha Hadid (Paperback - Mar 1, 2008) The celebrated architect and Pritzker Prize-winner speaks with series editor Hans Ulrich Obrist about the projects that established her distinctive, deconstructivist style, and shares her thoughts... Usually ships in 24 hours |
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Hand-Drawn Worlds by Steven Holl (Hardcover - Apr 2, 2004) Not all architectural renderings are done by straight edge or CAD program; not all spaces are visually related through blueprints. Impressive architectural spaces, spaces of atmospheric density, are...  |
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