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Subject: Architect Zaha Hadid
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Subject: Architect Zaha Hadid
Architect Zaha Hadid
Zaha Hadid was born 31 October 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 Architecturein 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.[1] 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 a 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 350 people strong, headquartered in a Victorian former school building in Clerkenwell, London.
In 2008, she ranked 69th on the Forbes list of "The World's 100 Most Powerful Women".[2] On 2 January 2009, she was the guest editor of the BBC's flagship morning radio news programme, Today.[3]
In 2010 she was named by Time magazine as influential thinker in the 2010 TIME 100 issue.[4] In September, 2010, The British magazine New Statesman listed Zaha Hadid at number 42 in their annual survey of "The World's 50 Most Influential Figures 2010" [5].
Hadid is the designer of the Dongdaemun Design Plaza & Park in Seoul, South Korea, which is expected to be the centerpiece of the festivities for the city's designation as World Design Capital 2010. The complex is scheduled to be completed in 2011.
Architectural work
Conceptual projects
- Price Tower extension hybrid project (2002), Bartlesville, Oklahoma - pending
- Guggenheim-Hermitage Vilnius, Vilnius, Lithuania, (2008-) - not realized
- Kartal-Pendik Waterfront Regeneration, Istanbul, Turkey
- Szervita square bubble office building Budapest, Hungary - not realized
Completed projects
- Vitra Fire Station (1994), Weil am Rhein, Germany
- Hoenheim-North Terminus & Car Park (2001), Hoenheim, France. Project architect: Stephane Hof
- Bergisel Ski Jump (2002), Innsbruck, Austria
- Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art (2003), Cincinnati, Ohio
- BMW Central Building (2005), Leipzig, Germany
- Ordrupgaard annexe (2005), Copenhagen, Denmark
- Phaeno Science Center (2005), Wolfsburg, Germany
- Maggie's Centres at the Victoria Hospital (2006), Kirkcaldy, Scotland
- Tondonia Winery Pavilion (2001–2006),[8] Haro, Spain
- Eleftheria square redesign (2007), Nicosia, Cyprus
- Hungerburgbahn new stations (2007), Innsbruck, Austria
- Chanel Mobile Art Pavilion (Worldwide) Tokyo, Hong Kong, New York, London, Paris, Moscow, (2006–2008)
- Bridge Pavilion (2008), Zaragoza, Spain
- J. S. Bach Pavilion, Manchester International Festival (2009), Manchester, UK
- CMA CGM Tower (2007–2010), Marseille, France
- Pierres vives (2002–2012), Montpellier, France. Project architect: Stephane Hof
- MAXXI - National Museum of the 21st Century Arts (1998–2010), Rome, Italy.[9] Stirling Prize 2010 winner.
- Guangzhou Opera House (2010), Guangzhou, People's Republic of China
Ongoing and future projects
- New Maritime Terminal, Salerno, Italy (to be completed by 2011).
- Riverside Museum (2007–2011) (projected) development of Glasgow Transport Museum, Scotland
- Eli and Edythe Broad Museum, Michigan State University, (2008–12)[10]
- Mandarin Oriental Dellis Cay, Villa D (2012) (private home under construction), Dellis Cay, Turks & Caicos Islands
- London Aquatics Centre, London, UK, (2008–2013), a 17,500-seat venue for the 2012 Summer Olympics.
- Napoli Afragola railway station, Italy (completion delayed to 2013)[11]
- Citylife office tower (Storto) and residentials, Milan, Italy (to be completed by 2014)
- Nuragic and Contemporary art museum (2006) (on hold), Cagliari, Italy
- Heydar Aliyev Cultural Centre in Baku, Azerbaijan.[12]
- Dongdaemun Design Plaza & Park in Seoul, South Korea.[13]
Recently, Hadid has been commissioned by the Iraqi government to design the new building for the Central Bank of Iraq. This project will be her first project for her native country.[14]
Other work includes the new departmental records building, Pierres vives, for Hérault in Montpellier.[15]
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.[16][17][18] She has been commissioned to design new buildings for Evelyn Grace Academy, Brixton.[19]
Awards
- 2001 Equerre d'argent Prize, special mention
- 2003 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture
- 2004 Pritzker Prize
- 2005 RIBA European Award for BMW Central Building[21]
- 2006 RIBA European Award for Phaeno Science Center[22]
- 2007 Thomas Jefferson Medal in Architecture
- 2008 RIBA European Award for Nordpark Cable Railway[22]
- 2009 Praemium Imperiale
- 2010 RIBA European Award for MAXXI[23]
- 2010 Stirling Prize[24]
Jesolo Magica Retail and Business Center
MAXXI Museum in Rome
Vitra Fire Station Aerial Photography © Christian Richter
Chanel Mobile Art Pavilion
Sunrise Tower, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Nile Tower, Cairo, Egypt
Symbiotic Villa, Taipei, Taiwan
Sheikh Zayed Bridge, UAE
Zayed National Museum Building
References
- ^ AIA. "Convention 2008". AIA. pp. 14. http://www.aia.org/aiaucmp/groups/aia/documents/pdf/aias075757.pdf. Retrieved 2009-05-05. [dead link]
- ^ Forbes: The World's 100 Most Powerful Women
- ^ "Guest editor: Zaha Hadid". BBC. 2008-12-27. http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_7785000/7785759.stm. Retrieved 2009-01-17.
- ^ Time 100 - Thinkers : Zaha Hadid
- ^ "42. Zaha Hadid - 50 People Who Matter 2010". New Statesman. http://www.newstatesman.com/architecture/2010/09/olympic-starchitect-hadid. Retrieved 12 October 2010.
- ^ Lacoste
- ^ www.bebitalia.it
- ^ "Tondonia Winery Pavillion / Zaha Hadid". archdaily. 2009-05-14. http://www.archdaily.com/22061/tondonia-winery-pavillion-zaha-hadid/. Retrieved 2009-08-07.
- ^ "Maxxi_Museo Nazionale Delle Arti Del Xxi Secolo". Darc.beniculturali.it. http://www.maxxi.beniculturali.it/english/index.htm. Retrieved 2009-01-17.
- ^ Michigan State University: World-class building under way with Broad Art Museum groundbreaking, retrieved 3 April 2010
- ^ Afragola station delayed. Today's Railways Europe. December 2008. p. 52.
- ^ "Photo from Reuters Pictures". Reuters Daylife. http://www.daylife.com/photo/01hJ7Bx1Ow9mp/Zaha_Hadid. Retrieved 2009-01-17. [dead link]
- ^ http://wdc2010.seoul.go.kr/eng/with/busi_ddp.jsp
- ^ [1]
- ^ "Pierres vive" (in French). http://mag.herault.fr/2008/11/24/la-clause-d-insertion-pierres-vives-c-est-quoi. Retrieved 2009-03-11.
- ^ Bonnie Chen In the frame May 25, 2009 The Standard
- ^ PolyU appoints Ms Zaha Hadid as Architect of Innovation Tower December 12, 2007 Hong Kong Polytechnic University
- ^ Hadid goes back to Hong Kong Z aha Hadid's Innovation Tower in Hong Kong Friday 14 Dec 2007 World Architecture News.com
- ^ Evelyn Grace Academy: Buildings & facilities
- ^ "D A R C - Zaha Hadid". Darc.beniculturali.it. http://www.darc.beniculturali.it/zaha_hadid/index.html. Retrieved 2009-01-17.
- ^ "RIBA Awards". e-architects. http://www.e-architect.co.uk/awards/riba_awards_2005.htm. Retrieved 2009-09-21.
- ^ a b "RIBA European Awards". RIBA. http://www.architecture.com/Awards/RIBAEuropeanAwards/RIBAEuropeanAwards.aspx. Retrieved 2009-09-21.
- ^ "2010 RIBA Award Winners Announced". Bustler. http://www.bustler.net/index.php/article/2010_riba_award_winners_announced/. Retrieved 2010-05-28.
- ^ Heathcote, Edwin (2010-10-03). "Hadid finally wins Stirling Prize". Financial Times. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/962728c2-cec0-11df-9be2-00144feab49a.html. Retrieved 2010-10-03.
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