Born in Baghdad Iraq in 1950, Zaha Hadid commenced
her college studies at the American University in Beirut, in the field of
mathematics. She moved to London in 1972 to study architecture at the
Architectural Association and upon graduation in 1977, she joined the Office of
Metropolitan Architecture (OMA). She also taught at the Architectural
Association (AA) with OMA collaborators Rem Koolhaas and Elia Zenghelis.
She began her own practice in London in 1980 and
won the prestigious competition for the Hong Kong Peak Club, a leisure and
recreational center in 1983. Painting and drawing, especially in her early
period, are important techniques of investigation for her design work. Ever
since her 1983 retrospective exhibition at the AA in London, her architecture
has been shown in exhibitions worldwide and many of her works are held in
important museum collections.
Known as an architect who consistently pushes the
boundaries of architecture and urban design, her work experiments with new
spatial concepts intensifying existing urban landscapes and encompassing all
fields of design, from the urban scale to interiors and furniture.
She is well-known for some of her seminal built
works, such at the Vitra Fire Station (1993), Weil am Rhein, Germany, the Mind
Zone at the Millennium Dome (1999) Greenwich, UK, a ski jump (2002) in
Innsbruck, Austria and the Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art (2003) in
Cincinnati, Ohio. Parallel with her private practice, Hadid has continued to be
involved in academics, holding chairs and guest professorships at Harvard
University, Yale University, the University of Illinois at Chicago, Columbia
University, the University of Visual Arts in Hamburg and the University of
Applied Arts in Vienna.
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