ZAHA HADID 1950 2016 LIFE AND PROJECTS PERSONAL

ZAHA HADID 1950 -2016 LIFE AND PROJECTS

PERSONAL LIFE Zaha Hadid was born on Halloween in 1950 in Baghdad, Iraq to a well-to -do family. Hadid's father was an important politician who helped start Iraq's National Democratic Party, and her mother was an Iraqi artist. As a youth, she went to London and Switzerland for boarding school. Later, she attended the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London where she was taught by Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas. This connection helped her begin her career in the field.

CAREER • Hadid graduated from the Architectural Association School of Architecture in 1977 and went to work at the Office for Metropolitan Architecture under her former professor, Koolhaus. After getting her feet wet, she started her own firm in London in 1980. Strangely enough, it wasn't until the early 1990 s that Hadid's designs were turned from sketches to actual buildings. Before that, her building designs were well known since she published them in architectural journals, but none of them had ever been commissioned.

• Her first major building was the Vitra Fire Station in 1991. From there, her career skyrocketed as her unusual designs awed communities around the world. Popular designs include the Sheik Zayed Bridge, London Aquatics Centre, and the Port Authority in Antwerp, Belgium, all of which we will discuss momentarily. Vitra Fire Station

London Aquastic Center

Port Authority

• Hadid was responsible for designing dozens of public buildings, from museums, hospitals, schools, hotels, and office towers. • Her work garnered her several awards. For example, she was given the Pritzker Prize of Architecture in 2004. This was incredibly important because she was the first woman to ever receive the award. Hadid was known for breaking through the glass ceiling of the architecture industry, which is dominated by men. Her contributions to architecture were further recognized when she received the Jane Drew Prize in 2012. • Hadid worked up until her death on March 31, 2016, when she unexpectedly died of a heart attack. She left behind several uncompleted buildings, two of which were finished posthumously.

MAJOR WORKS • In 2003, she completed the building of the ‘Lois & Richard Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art’. This was the first American museum designed by a woman and proclaimed the ‘most important American building to be completed since the cold war’ by the New York Times. • In 2010, her Maxxi building design was awarded the Stirling Prize. The national museum is located in Rome and is said to be “a masterpiece fit to sit alongside Rome’s ancient wonders, ”

AVARDS&ACHIEVEMENTS • Hadid’s personal list of achievements numbers over 100 prestigious awards and honors. She received her first award in 1982, the ‘Gold Medal Architectural Design’ for her British Architecture. • In 2004, she became the first woman and one of the youngest recipients of the ‘Pritzker Prize’ for architecture. This award is commonly known throughout the world as architecture’s highest honor. • In 2012, Hadid was given the honor of ‘Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire’. • In 2014, the Heydar Aliyev Cultural Centre, designed by her, won the Design Museum Design of the Year Award.

MAXXI MUSEUM • In May 28, 2010, the inauguration of the MAXXI Museum in Rome marked a tuning point for the Italian cultural scene. This long-awaited venue, designed by Zaha Hadid Architects, was indeed the fist major public-owned museum dedicated to contemporary art to be opened in decades in Italy; a country world-renowned for his old art heritage but where public institutions have traditionally paid less attention to the arts of today, with the remarkable exception of the Venice Biennale. • Therefore, the opening of the MAXXI is a milestone in the path of Italy towards a more conscious attitude about contemporary culture. Since that day, indeed, many new private and public museums and centers dedicated to contemporary art, architecture, design and creativity have been opened in Italy, albeit still not as many as in, say, the United States, France, Germany or the United Kingdom.

Maxxı Museum

MAXXI MUSEUM COFF E RECEPTION

HEYDAR ALIYEV CENTER • Zaha Hadid Architects was appointed as design architects of the Heydar Aliyev Center following a competition in 2007. The Center, designed to become the primary building for the nation’s cultural programs, breaks from the rigid and often monumental Soviet architecture that is so prevalent in Baku, aspiring instead to express the sensibilities of Azeri culture and the optimism of a nation that looks to the future.

Heydar Aliyev Center

DONGDAEAMUN DESIGN PLAZA • DDP is the first public project in Korea to utilize the 3 Dimensional Building Information Modelling (BIM) and other digital tools in construction. Throughout the design process, every building requirement was considered as a set of inter-related spatial relationships which will define the social interactions and behavioural structure in/around the project. These relationships became the framework of the design, defining how different aspects of the project, such as spatial organization, programmatic requirements, and engineering come together.

Dongdaemun Design Plaza

OTHER PROJECTS • Aquastic Centre • Bergisel • BMW Central Building • Bridge Pavilion • Rosenthal Center For Contemporary Art • City Life • Signature Towers • CMA CGM Tower • Contemporary Arts Center • Dubai Opera House

ZAHA HADID DEATH • On 31 March 2016, Hadid died of a heart attack in a Miami hospital, where she was being treated for bronchitis.

REFERENCE • https: //www. thefamouspeople. com/profiles/zahahadid-5626. php • http: //www. abitare. it/en/events/2017/06/07/zahahadid-maxxi-rome-italy/ • https: //www. inexhibit. com/case-studies/zahahadid-the-maxxi-museum-rome-part-1/ • http: //www. zahahadid. com/architecture/dongdaemun-design-parkplaza/

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