Zaha Hadid. The architect was 65 years old (Mary McCartney).
Considered one of the most brilliant exponents of contemporary architecture, the Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid Anglo died Thursday March 31 in Miami at age 65. The 2004 Pritzker Prize winner suffered a heart attack way to the hospital where he was to be attended by a condition to the bronchi. Among his most famous works is the London Aquatic Center, which was built for the 2012 Olympics, and Opera Guangzhou in China
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Zaha Hadid was the first woman architect considered a superstar, with an extensive global architectural production in different parts of world. His finished work has been recognized with numerous awards, among which include the Mies van der Rohe (2003), the Pritzker Prize (2004, being the first woman to win), the Praemium Imperiale (2009) and was named a Dame Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (2012). Some of his drawings have been incorporated into the permanent collection of MoMA in New York.
Born in Baghdad in 1950, studied mathematics at the American University of Beirut before starting his architectural studies in 1972 at the architectural Association in London. In 1979 he had established his own studio in London – Zaha Hadid Architects – gaining a reputation worldwide for their theoretical work . innovative
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During the first years of production was more conceptual and ideological, resulting in a lot of unrealized projects among which the proposed competition for the Parc de la Villette in Paris -whose drawings are at MoMA -., the Peak in Hong Kong, several buildings in London, the masterplan for the redevelopment of the port area of Hamburg and an office building in Berlin Kufürstendamm
Hadid – who has dual British and Iraqi nationality, he was born in a family of high class Sunni Arab. His father Muhammad Hadid was a wealthy industrialist who founded the Mosul al-Ahali group in 1932 located on the liberal left. Later, he was vice president of the National Democratic Party from 1946 to 1960 and served as minister of Finanazas in the government of General Abd al-Karim Qasim after the coup of 1958. The mother of Zaha Hadid, Wajiha al-Sabunji, also came from a wealthy family in Mosul.
Zaha was educated in Baghdad in a school run by French Catholic nuns and continued part of his secondary education in Switzerland and Britain. He returned to the Middle East to study mathematics at the American University in Beirut between 1968 and 1971. After obtaining his degree he returned to London to study at the Architectural Association where he earned his diploma in 1977. In the AA was a student of Rem Koolhaas and Elia Zenghelis, of which later became a partner at OMA (Office for Metropolitan Architecture). He was also responsible for a Unit in the AA until 1987.
Hadid was influenced by the cosmopolitan and liberal atmosphere of their education in Iraq and Europe, as well as contact with all kinds of cultural influences. As an architect recognized his affection for the Russian Suprematism and Constructivism, since his student days in AA. Entiendía place and local culture but without applying criteria of national identity.
The amazing and great activity has it deployed all these years was completed with an intense academic activity and production of books, having occupied the chair Kenzo Tange at Harvard University Graduate School of Design, the Sullivan chair at the University of Illinois’ School of Architecture, as well as directed the Master Studio at Columbia University. In 2001, he start to lead the Studio Hadid at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna that continues today.
For years Zaha Hadid has rejected the term ‘woman architect’ because for her what was important is he was an architect. Over time, consigió occupy a site in an environment she describes as friendly to women. “Have fun, do not work so hard,” was his recommendation to young people
Source: One day |. An architect, Zaha Hadid, by Eva Alvarez
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