Zaha hadid husband

The Goldberger chapter explores different types of architectural space, several of which are discussed in this section on Zaha Hadid. The Art Story resource provides a helpful overview of Hadid’s major works, including the Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art, and offers additional context by discussing Hadid’s biography.

• Paul Goldberger, “Architecture as Space,” Chapter 4 from Why Architecture Matters (available as an eBook from Portland Community College Library)
• “Zaha Hadid, Biography and Legacy” The Art Story, Content compiled and written by Dawn Kanter, edited and revised, with summary and accomplishments added b
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  An interview with Zaha Hadid on her vision of quality and design

  Born in Baghdad (Iraq), Zaha Hadid chose the British capital to establish her own studio in 1979 after studying at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London. At the same time, the Iraqi-British architect collaborated as a teacher at this same institution in the 1980s.

  Throughout her career, Zaha Hadid has received some of the industry’s most prestigious awards, such as the Mies van der Rohe Prize for Contemporary Architecture (2003) and the Praemium Imperiale (2009), as well as being the first woman to be awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2004, comparable to the Nobel Prize for Architecture.

  The Zaha Hadid Architects studio is known around the world for its dynamic and innovative projects, which focus on the interrelation of design, landscape and topography to integrate each building into its environment. To do so, Zaha Hadid Architects makes use of experimentation with and application of cutting edge technology.

  The MAXXI: National Museum of the 21^st Century Arts in Rome (Italy)

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  Zaha Hadid

  (1950-2016)

  Zaha Hadid, one of the most extraordinary figures of the architectural world, died at the age of 65 in Miami, Florida, succumbing to complications surrounding a case of bronchitis. Born in Baghdad, Iraq, she studied mathematics at the American University of Beirut. In the 1970s she enrolled at the Architectural Association in London, where she stayed to live most of her life. At AA she connected with two young professors, Rem Koolhaas and Elia Zenghelis, and assimilated their passion for the dislocated forms of constructivism. She collaborated in their recently founded Office for Metropolitan Architecture before setting up her own practice in 1979.

  In the first stage of her career, scant in commissions but extremely rich in ideas, what she built was a universe of her own, one which was more artistic than architectural, and expressed in two dimensions: her large deconstructivist canvases of crystallographic landscapes and fractured topographies where, as the engineer Peter Rice later said, Zaha “wanted everything crooked”; and the construction of her p