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Zaha Hadid Architect : Information + Images
Contemporary Architecture : Buildings + Projects + Exhibitions + BooksArchitect Zaha Hadid was born in 1950 in Baghdad, Iraq. She has become one of the most famous architects in the world. Buildings nominated for the prestigious Stirling Prize include Nordpark Cable Railway Station (2008), Phaeno Science Centre (2006) and BMW Central Building (2005). Zaha Hadid's style is boldly contemporary, organic and innovative. The architect pushes design through new technology and materials and never does ordinary. Aswell as creating architecture the architect is a celebrated painter, designer of furniture and interior products + fittings such as bowls and chandeliers. Zaha Hadid - Building News 2009Latest projects firstMAXXI Rome, Italy Nov 2009  photo : Roland Halbe MAXXI Rome Zaha Hadid Exhibition in Italy : Major Retrospective Palazzo della Ragione, Padua 27 Oct 2009 - 1 Mar 2010  Zaha Hadid Exhibition Padua Praemium Imperiale Architecture Laureate Zaha Hadid awarded Praemium Imperiale Architecture Laureate for 2009  image courtesy of Zaha Hadid Architects © Michelle Litvin Burnham Pavilion, Chicago, USA - photos from 24 Aug 2009 Zaha Hadid Architects Exhibition : Design Museum, London Visions For The City Of London, until 4 Oct 2009 Super Contemporary - Celebrating Visionary Design from London’s Creative Mavericks JS Bach Chamber Music Hall, England  photo : Luke Hayes "A single continuous ribbon of fabric swirls around itself, creating layered spaces to cocoon the performers and audience with in an intimate fluid space." said Hadid. Seville University Library, Spain  image from ZHA Construction work will continue as normal throughout the appeal process. Cairo Expo City Competition, Egypt  image from Zaha Hadid Zaha Hadid Architects will be designing Cairo Expo City buildings with engineers Buro Happold. LACOSTE footwear  photo from ZHA LACOSTE will launch the footwear capsule collection designed in collaboration with Zaha Hadid in September 2009. Stone Towers Cairo, Egypt  image from the architects The Stone Towers development by Zaha Hadid provides office & retail facilities, a five-star business hotel building with serviced apartments
Zaha Hadid Buildings - information on older projects Pierres Vives building Phaeno Science Centre Abu Dhabi Performing Arts Centre The Opus Dubai London Aquatics Centre Office Contact - Zaha Hadid Architects : London, England, UK +44 (0)20 7253 5147 Zaha Hadid Book - Gordana Fontana Giusti, Patrick Schumacher  Zaha Hadid Architects - Key Designs + Works listed alphabetically Portrait photograph of the architect & designer:  Zaha Hadid photo : Steve Double, Jun 2007 Zaha Hadid - Architecture BackgroundEducation: Architectural Association, London 1972- Diploma Prize 1977 Career: Office for Metropolitan Architecture - partner Teaching: Architectural Association tutor with OMA architects Rem Koolhaas and Elia Zenghelis Zaha Hadid ran her own studio at the AA until 1987 Teaching Positions: Kenzo Tange Chair at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, USA Sullivan Chair at the University of Chicago School of Architecture, USA Guest professorships: Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Hamburg,Germany Knolton School of Architecture, Ohio, USA Masters Studio at Columbia University, New York, USA Zaha Hadid was the Eero Saarinen Visiting Professor of Architectural Design for the Spring Semester 2002 at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA. Zaha Hadid was made Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and Fellow of the American Institute of Architecture. Zaha Hadid is currently Professor at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria. Zaha Hadid has entered, and won, a huge number of design competitions, including The Peak, Hong Kong (1983), Kurfürstendamm, Berlin (1986), Düsseldorf Art and Media Centre (1992/93), Cardiff Bay Opera House, Wales (1994), Royal Academy Habitable Bridge Competition, London (1996), the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati (1998), University of North London Holloway Road Bridge (1998), Centre for Contemporary Arts, Rome (1999), Bergisel Ski-jump, Innsbruck, Austria (1999), Placa de les Artes, Barcelona (2001), Masterplan for Singapore's Science Hub (2001), Ordrupgaard Museum Building Extension, Copenhagen (2001) and the temporary Guggenheim Museum, Tokyo (2002). Despite architecture competition entries in the UK for the V&A Museum's Boilerhouse Gallery, Habitable Bridge Competition design, Hackney Empire Theatre, all London, and of course the Cardiff Bay Opera House design, the first real buildings by Zaha Hadid are in Scotland. |
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Hotel Puerta America interior, Spain
Zaha Hadid design : Milan Furniture Fair
Pritzker Prize Architecture Award : Winner 2004
Zaragoza Expo Bridge : Architecture Competition winner
Architecture Design Award : Maggies Fife
London Architecture
World Architecture : e-architect - key buildings across the globe
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