A Zaha Hadid (Baghdad, 1950-Miami, 2016), who died yesterday at age 65 as a result of a heart attack, he will be remembered as the first woman to win the Pritzker Architecture Prize (2004), and as the . most prominent architect of the late twentieth century and early twenty-first century
She chose to develop, test and organize your based in breaking all existing formulas architecture; he built his own language, called parametricism, which combines elements of architecture, landscape and geology.
The architect visited Mexico City to participate in the 13th edition of the International Congress of Architecture and Design Arquine, which took place at the Metropolitan Theatre in March 2012.
After his lecture, he confessed to the media that upon arriving in Mexico City was surprised to see it completely covered with houses.
In this regard said: “the challenge is how to make high architectural proposals, even buried, to solve the problem of space here.” Thus, Hadid recommended to Mexico the use of vertical buildings, to take advantage of the little space that has this great city, and ruled in favor of functionalist architecture.
At a press conference, the author Aquatic Center London Olympic Park of Mexico said that he liked much the architecture of Luis Barragán and Ricardo Legorreta proposals, Juan O’Gorman, Felix Candela and Enrique Norten, whom he knew for a long time.
At that time, visibly tired and annoyed, said that was not considered a very famous architect, although he acknowledged that gave gladly receive the Pritzker.
In Mexico left a huge footprint, as its office, Zaha Hadid Architecs, designed the residential area for the Sphere Center Monterrey, consisting of 900 houses and apartments in a set of six buildings.
the complex of mixed uses, which also involved the Mexican firm Sordo Madaleno, is located on avenue Carretera Nacional, in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon.
Project without finishing
the architect studied mathematics at the University American in Beirut, Lebanon; in 1972 he moved to London, where he joined the Architectural Association, where he graduated in 1977.
It was an innovative architecture to defy gravity
and working obsessively with curves, as can be seen in his most famous creations: the Vitra Fire Station in Weil am Rhein, Germany; the Pavilion of the Serpentine Gallery, London; the Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art in Cincinnati; Bridge Pavilion Expo Zaragoza; Evelyn Grace Academy in Brixton, UK; . Opera Guangzhou in China, and the Maxxi Museum, Rome
Even though some of his architectural proposals won many competitions, some of them came not to be constructed: for example, the Opera House Bay of Cardiff, in Wales, and the Central Library of the University of Seville, stopped work after protests from neighbors who argued before the High Court of Andalusia that went against the green areas of Prado of San Sebastián.
it was also rejected his proposed National Stadium for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, because it had a high cost
Against that she said. “it’s not my problem you always reject me . projects down the road there will always be a project that will culminate later “
Hadid continued with their projects and their search; in recent years he dedicated his time to meet the sustainable architecture, because he was interested in rescuing this knowledge and its relationship with nature.
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