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Zaha Hadid

Zaha Hadid is a London-based Architectural Designer, whose work encompasses all fields of design, ranging from urban scale through to products, interiors and furniture. Central to her concerns is a simultaneous engagement in practice, teaching and research, in the pursuit of an uncompromising commitment to modernism.

Hadid studied architecture at the Architectural Association from 1972 and was awarded the Diploma Prize in 1977. She then became a partner of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture; began teaching at the AA with OMA collaborators Rem Koolhaas and Elia Zenghelis; and later led her own studio at the AA until 1987. Since then she held the Kenzo Tange Chair at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, the Sullivan Chair at the University of Chicago School of Architecture, guest professorships at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Hamburg, the Knolton School of Architecture, Ohio and at the Masters Studio at Columbia University, New York. She will be the Eero Saarinen Visiting Professor of Architectural Design for the Spring Semester 2002 at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. In addition, she was made Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and Fellow of the American Institute of Architecture, and is Professor at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna.

Hadid has been testing the boundaries of architectural design in a series of research based competitions. Winning designs include The Peak, Hong Kong (1983), Kurfürstendamm, Berlin (1986), Düsseldorf Art and Media Centre (1992/93), Cardiff Bay Opera House, Wales (1994), Thames Water/Royal Academy Habitable Bridge Competition (1996), the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati (1998), University of North London Holloway Road Bridge (1998), the Centre for Contemporary Arts, Rome
(1999) and the Bergisel Ski-jump in Innsbruck, Austria (1999).

Other competition entries include large scale urban studies for Hamburg, Madrid, Bordeaux and Cologne; Museum Buildings in Bad Deutsch Altenburg, Austria, Madrid (Prado, Reina Sofia, Royal Palace), the Victoria & Albert Museum’s Boilerhouse Gallery, London and a Museum of Islamic Arts in Doha, Qatar; concert halls for Copenhagen and Luxembourg; a theatre for the Hackney Empire, London and large scale multi-functional buildings for 42nd street, New York as well as for the IIT Campus in Chicago.

Zaha Hadid’s built work has won her much academic and public acclaim. Her best known projects to date are the Vitra Fire Station and the LFone pavilion in Weil am Rhein, Germany (1993/1999), a housing project for IBA-Block 2, Berlin (1993) and most recently the Mind Zone at the Millennium Dome, Greenwich, London (1999). She has also completed furniture and interiors (Bitar, London (1985); Moonsoon Restaurant, Sapporo (1990), temporary structures (Folly in Osaka (1990); Music Video Pavilion in Groningen (1990); a Pavilion for Blueprint Magazine at Interbuild, Birmingham (1995)), exhibition designs (‘The Great Utopia’, Guggenheim Museum, New York (1992); ‘WishMachine’ at the Vienna Kunsthalle (1996); ‘Addressing the Century’ at the Hayward Gallery, London (1998)), installations (Paper Art Biennale, Düren (1996); Venice Biennale Masters Pavilion (1996)), stage sets (Pet Shop Boys World Tour 1999/2000); Charleroi Dance Company, Belgium (2000)); an exhibition design for the Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels (2000). Zaha Hadid has recently exhibited her furniture designs Z-Scape at Sawaya & Moroni Lounging Furniture Fair in Milan (2000); exhibited projects at the Venice Biennale; Austria Pavilion, Bergisel Ski-jump, Austria, Spittelau Viaducts, Vienna; International Pavilion, Contemporary Arts Centre, Rome, Contemporary Arts Centre, Cincinnati; British Pavilion, Holloway Road Bridge Link, London, Thames Water Habitable Bridge, London and the Mind Zone, Millennium Dome, London; an installation ‘Meshwork’ for the gardens of the Villa Medici in Rome (2000).

Hadid’s paintings and drawings have always been an important testing field, and a medium for the exploration of her design. This work is widely published in periodicals and monographs which include Zaha Hadid: Planetary Architecture Two (no.11, 1983); GA Architect: Zaha Hadid (no.5, AA files, summer,1986, Tokyo); Zaha Hadid 1983-1991, El Croquis ( no.52, Dec, 1991,Madrid); Zaha Hadid 1992-1995, El Croquis (no. 73, Sept, 1995, Madrid); El Croquis 1996-2001 (no. 103, 2001, Madrid); Zaha
Hadid: The Complete Buildings and Projects (Thames & Hudson, London, 1998); Zaha Hadid LF one (Landscape Formation one) in Weil am Rhein (Birkhäuser, 1999).

Major exhibitions include a retrospective at the Architectural Association, London (1983), the Guggenheim Museum, New York (1978), the GA Gallery, Tokyo (1985), the Deconstructivist Architecture show at MoMA, New York (1988), the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University (1995), Grand Central Station New York (1995), the San Francisco MoMA (1997/98) and the Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg (2001). Hadid’s work also forms part of the permanent collections of various institutions such as MoMA New York, MoMA San Francisco and the Deutsches Architektur Museum, Frankfurt, Germany.

Zaha Hadid has been chosen as the first woman to become the 2004 Laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize.

Updated March 24, 2004

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		Zaha Hadid Zaha Hadid is a London-based Architectural Designer, whose work encompasses all fields of design, ranging from urban scale through to products, interiors and furniture. Central to her concerns is a simultaneous engagement in practice, teaching and research, in the pursuit of an uncompromising commitment to modernism. Hadid studied architecture at the Architectural Association from 1972 and was awarded the Diploma Prize in 1977. She then became a partner of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture; began teaching at the AA with OMA collaborators Rem Koolhaas and Elia Zenghelis; and later led her own studio at the AA until 1987. Since then she held the Kenzo Tange Chair at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, the Sullivan Chair at the University of Chicago School of Architecture, guest professorships at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Hamburg, the Knolton School of Architecture, Ohio and at the Masters Studio at Columbia University, New York. She will be the Eero Saarinen Visiting Professor of Architectural Design for the Spring Semester 2002 at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. In addition, she was made Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and Fellow of the American Institute of Architecture, and is Professor at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna. Hadid has been testing the boundaries of architectural design in a series of research based competitions. Winning designs include The Peak, Hong Kong (1983), Kurfürstendamm, Berlin (1986), Düsseldorf Art and Media Centre (1992/93), Cardiff Bay Opera House, Wales (1994), Thames Water/Royal Academy Habitable Bridge Competition (1996), the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati (1998), University of North London Holloway Road Bridge (1998), the Centre for Contemporary Arts, Rome (1999) and the Bergisel Ski-jump in Innsbruck, Austria (1999). Other competition entries include large scale urban studies for Hamburg, Madrid, Bordeaux and Cologne; Museum Buildings in Bad Deutsch Altenburg, Austria, Madrid (Prado, Reina Sofia, Royal Palace), the Victoria & Albert Museum’s Boilerhouse Gallery, London and a Museum of Islamic Arts in Doha, Qatar; concert halls for Copenhagen and Luxembourg; a theatre for the Hackney Empire, London and large scale multi-functional buildings for 42nd street, New York as well as for the IIT Campus in Chicago. Zaha Hadid’s built work has won her much academic and public acclaim. Her best known projects to date are the Vitra Fire Station and the LFone pavilion in Weil am Rhein, Germany (1993/1999), a housing project for IBA-Block 2, Berlin (1993) and most recently the Mind Zone at the Millennium Dome, Greenwich, London (1999). She has also completed furniture and interiors (Bitar, London (1985); Moonsoon Restaurant, Sapporo (1990), temporary structures (Folly in Osaka (1990); Music Video Pavilion in Groningen (1990); a Pavilion for Blueprint Magazine at Interbuild, Birmingham (1995)), exhibition designs (‘The Great Utopia’, Guggenheim Museum, New York (1992); ‘WishMachine’ at the Vienna Kunsthalle (1996); ‘Addressing the Century’ at the Hayward Gallery, London (1998)), installations (Paper Art Biennale, Düren (1996); Venice Biennale Masters Pavilion (1996)), stage sets (Pet Shop Boys World Tour 1999/2000); Charleroi Dance Company, Belgium (2000)); an exhibition design for the Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels (2000). Zaha Hadid has recently exhibited her furniture designs Z-Scape at Sawaya & Moroni Lounging Furniture Fair in Milan (2000); exhibited projects at the Venice Biennale; Austria Pavilion, Bergisel Ski-jump, Austria, Spittelau Viaducts, Vienna; International Pavilion, Contemporary Arts Centre, Rome, Contemporary Arts Centre, Cincinnati; British Pavilion, Holloway Road Bridge Link, London, Thames Water Habitable Bridge, London and the Mind Zone, Millennium Dome, London; an installation ‘Meshwork’ for the gardens of the Villa Medici in Rome (2000). Hadid’s paintings and drawings have always been an important testing field, and a medium for the exploration of her design. This work is widely published in periodicals and monographs which include Zaha Hadid: Planetary Architecture Two (no.11, 1983); GA Architect: Zaha Hadid (no.5, AA files, summer,1986, Tokyo); Zaha Hadid 1983-1991, El Croquis ( no.52, Dec, 1991,Madrid); Zaha Hadid 1992-1995, El Croquis (no. 73, Sept, 1995, Madrid); El Croquis 1996-2001 (no. 103, 2001, Madrid); Zaha Hadid: The Complete Buildings and Projects (Thames & Hudson, London, 1998); Zaha Hadid LF one (Landscape Formation one) in Weil am Rhein (Birkhäuser, 1999). Major exhibitions include a retrospective at the Architectural Association, London (1983), the Guggenheim Museum, New York (1978), the GA Gallery, Tokyo (1985), the Deconstructivist Architecture show at MoMA, New York (1988), the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University (1995), Grand Central Station New York (1995), the San Francisco MoMA (1997/98) and the Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg (2001). Hadid’s work also forms part of the permanent collections of various institutions such as MoMA New York, MoMA San Francisco and the Deutsches Architektur Museum, Frankfurt, Germany. Zaha Hadid has been chosen as the first woman to become the 2004 Laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize. Updated March 24, 2004 Zaha Hadid arcspace features