The architect Zaha Hadid

By,
Jilmil Rajkhowa
 CONTENTS

 LIFE AND CAREER.

 AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS.
 HER WORKS AND IDEAS.
 HER INFLUENCE.
 HER IMPACT IN ARCHITECHTURE.
 LIFE AND CAREER

Hadid was born in 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.
In 1980 she established her own London-based practice.
 AWARDS
 Zaha Hadid is a great architect, she has won many international competitions.

 In 2002 she won the international design competition to design Singapore’s one north
master plan.

 In 2003 Hadid had been awarded a CBE for services to architecture.

 In 2004 Hadid become the first female recipient of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, the
biggest award in the architure industry, the equivalent of Nobel Prize.

 In 2005, one of her designs won the competition for the new city casino of Basel
Switzerland.

 In 2006, Hadid was honored by spanning her entire work at the Guggenheim museum in
New York.

 Also in 2006 she received an honorary degree from the American University of Beirut.
HER WORK
 INFLUENCE IN HER WORK

 Zaha Hadid was the first woman to

win the Priztker Prize.

 She has influenced architecture by

designing unbuilt projects such as the
Cardiff Bay Opera House in 1994.

 She has always been recognized as a

unique designer winning numerous
competitions for designs.
 INFLUENCE IN HER WORK
 She is best known for her modern
curving designs.

 She has a reputation of being a

visionary designer.

 She has a unique imagination which is

why she’s so important to architecture.

 Zaha Hadid is acknowledged and

respected by her peers such as
architect Ram Koolhaas ‘A planet in her
own inimitable orbit.
 HER IMPACT IN ARCHITECTURE

 She has designed new forms of extreme

architecture such as her liquid spaces.

 Future projects include the very aesthetic

looking Dancing Towers in Dubai.

 Also the Herault Culture Sports Montpellier,

France 2002.

Dancing Towers in Dubai.

Herault Culture Sports Montpellier