Zaha Hadid, the architect who transformed the discipline with his expertise in designing elegant and curvaceous structures, died Thursday at age 65 in a hospital in Miami (USA) as a result of cardiac arrest.
Hadid, born in Baghdad in 1950, conquered the summit of his profession in 2004, when she became the first woman to receive the Pritzker, considered the Nobel of architecture , and consecrated its worldwide fame with the refined Aquatic Center that raised for the 2012 Summer Olympics.
 Aquatics Center London Olympic Park. – EFE
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The organization of the Pritzker Prize lamented the death of the prestigious Anglo-Iraqi architect: “It was really a pioneer in the field of architecture (…) represents the highest aspirations of the Pritzker Prize “, said the organization of the award on Hadid.
it was one of the women most respected in the circles of international architecture since 1979 established his own office in London and began to participate in competitions worldwide.
the project for a private club in Hong Kong that was never built assumed in 1983 the first turning point of his career , which took off shortly after finishing his studies at the London Architectural Association (AA), where he was a student, among others, the Dutch Reem Koolhaas.
Hadid dazzled the jury of Hong Kong with a design that seemed to defy gravity and used rocks taken from the foundation to create artificial hills and alter the natural topography of the area.
That building laid the foundation for future work, always one step beyond architecture traditional and focused on its characteristic notion of space, expressed through curved and layered structures.
in the 80s, the architect signed more than a dozen projects designed to cities like London , Berlin, Tokyo, Los Angeles and Abu Dhabi. Many of these sketches and drawings were never collect physical form, but these projects served to the Anglo-Iraqi forged his style and name became the most prestigious competitions, although at that time there was some controversy in the world of architecture by the success of an architect who just raised buildings.
in the 90s, the situation took a turn for the architect, who could erect its first relevant designs, such as the fire station Vitra in Weil am Rhein (Germany), and the Opera House in Cardiff, Wales.
with those credentials, Hadid was commissioned in 2000 by lift the temporary pavilion of the Serpentine Gallery in London , a winding structure in which the Anglo-Iraqi showed and technical expertise that would allow him to sign some of the spectacular buildings that were to come.
 Pavilion on the bridge of the Ebro river in Zaragoza, Spain. – EFE
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When at age 54 won the Pritzker, who never before had recognized the work of a woman, Hadid received it as a boost to erect buildings even more ambitious.
Guangzhou Opera House in China; the Riverside Museum in Glasgow, UK, and the aquatic London Pavilion 2012 are some buildings that rose in the last decade, probably the most creative for Hadid.
From his work in Spain Bridge Expo Zaragoza 2008 flag or the Master Plan Zorrotzaurre stands to reshape the area of Bilbao, while in Latin America left little trace, with some work still developing, as the Sphere Center of the Mexican city of Monterrey or residential building Atlantic House on Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro.
in recent years he had collected some of the most prestigious awards in the art world . He was honored as a Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of France and awarded in the UK as a Dame Commander of the British Empire. Last February, to collect the gold medal of the Royal Institute of British Architecture (RIBA), Hadid took the opportunity to defend the role of women in architecture.
” you can now see women who have established themselves as architects, but that does not mean it’s easy. sometimes it is a huge challenge. there has been a tremendous change in recent years and we will continue to progress, “he said.
 real estate project in Miami, Florida – EFE
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His death has provoked many reactions, such as the British architect Richard Rodgers, who has qualified as a “great architect and a gorgeous woman “ and the mayor of London, Boris Johnson, who stressed that his legacy lives on in the” beautiful buildings “that raised in the British capital and the rest of the world.
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