Further Research: Zaha Hadid

 



I mostly try to get inspiration from nature and now I'm learning how to create an idea and what materials to use from Hadid's projects. 



Zaha Hadid's vision created 21st-century architecture and caused a stir around the world. His designs showed what could be achieved in concrete, steel and glass. It embodies her unwavering optimism for the future and her belief in the power of invention with cutting-edge design, materials and construction innovations.



Zaha Hadid was born in Baghdad, Iraq in 1950. She first studied mathematics at the American University in Beirut and received a diploma award in 1977. In 1972, she moved to London to study at the Architectural Association (AA) school.

She continued her teaching career at the AA School until 1987 and held numerous chairs and visiting professorships at universities around the world, including Columbia, Harvard, Yale, and the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. She founded her own firm, Zaha Hadid Architects, in 1979 and was awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize (the Nobel Prize for architecture) in 2004.

Hadid has won the highest honours from individual, academic and professional institutions around the world. Her practice is one of the most inventive architecture studios in the world and has been for almost 40 years.


Her buildings are beautiful, and their beauty may be due to their attractive urban presence, eye-catching - but the beauty and mastery of her work is tied to meaning. Each of Hadid's buildings is o has an unusual construction, architectural ideology, and urban integration.

Hadid's work has been exhibited at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York in 2006, the Design Museum in London in 2007, the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg in 2015, and the Serpentine Galleries in London in 2016.

Zaha Hadid Receives the RIBA Royal Gold Medal at a Ceremony in London, 2016

Hadid's outstanding contribution to the architectural profession has been recognized by the most prominent professional academic and civic institutions. As for her accomplishments, Hadid was named to the Forbes list of the world's most powerful women and the Japan Art Association earned her the Premium Imperiale Award in 2010 and 2011. She also won the Stirling Prize, one of the highest architectural awards from the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). In addition, TIME magazine included her in the list of the 100 most influential people in the world. 2010 Zaha Hadid was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II in 2012, and in February 2016 she received the Roa Gold Medal.


Reference:

Zaha Hadid architects (no date) Zaha Hadid Architects. Available at: https://www.zaha-hadid.com/ (Accessed: November 12, 2022).

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  1. This seems to a be a biography of Hadid why am I looking at this and how does it relate to your project - please look at her work in depth and explain how this informs your own work

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