Zaha Hadid (Baghdad, 1950), who died yesterday in Miami at 65 years old, made history before starting to build. It was internationally famous for its Rolf Fehlbaum neoconstructivist drawings when the owner of the German furniture company Vitra, gave him the opportunity to raise its first building: the fire station of its factory.
The year was 1994. A decade later, he got the Pritzker Prize (2004) and he started one of the most successful careers in the profession. The most notable in the hands of a woman.
He prefaced thus the triple obstacle of trying to build an ideology, to do as a woman and trying to lift emblematic buildings in his adopted country, the United United. It was not easy.
Hadid went on to win competitions, such as the Opera of Cardiff in Wales, which eventually will take care to Norman Foster. Able to resist. He became an excellent designer able to apply his talents to jewelry, furniture, shoes, bags, boats or clothing with which he dressed.
When he opened his Art Center in 2003 in Cincinnati (Ohio) His first architectural project norteamericano- world watched very closely how was the transformation of the plans of the architect groundbreaking paper to the three dimensions of reality.
He left the trial airy but understood that her demand was greater and decided to risk more. “Trying to break the boundaries of architecture” he spoke of converting the buildings into the landscape and to rethink the physical limits of construction.
He did it with the MAXXI in Rome in 2010 and the Opera Guangzhou same year. At that time he concluded one of his most moving works, school Evelyn Grace in Brixton, a place where students with an unpromising future study in one of the best buildings in the British capital.
In Baku (Azerbaijan ) Hadid and his team raised the Heydar Aliyev cultural center that opened a path leading to the transformation of the city, while the lifetime associated with the dynasty in power.
After signing the Aquatics Centre for the London Olympics (2012) and leave a sober version of its artistic mark in his city, Hadid was called to work at Oxford, where he built a building at St. Anthony’s College. At hand renewal Istanbul waterfront and design a stadium for Qatar 2022.
A tower in Moscow and a bridge in Taiwan. If their field were not built His museum work for years it was valued for their contribution during the last decades artistic-seemed to reinvent the world.
Their study did nothing but grow, about to move to the offices of the former Design Museum, next to the Thames, managed projects in all continents of the world.
In the many Zaha Hadid gave interviews to El País three issues in his speech appeared recurrently. On the one hand the select club: “I will never be like them. No I sail, I am a Muslim and I am a woman. ”
He talked about the lack of support from fellow architects to injustices like Opera Cardiff. Only Richard Rogers launched a public protest.
The second tma was the Guggenheim in Bilbao. Hadid was grateful to the audacity of the Gehry building. If she had used to discuss signing decades groundbreaking projects when the Guggenheim opened, I was right. And an explanation: “The Guggenheim opened the door. I had to open a man. To me they would not let me. So I’m grateful. Through this project I could build. “
The third issue of its ideology was like a mantra. He never tired of repeating: it was always essential at all times to break the boundaries of architecture. He was referring to the physical, formal limits, and it is fair to recognize that she got it.
also let you paid off the other two issues. In the Arab world his career caused many women wanted to study architecture. It may not sail, like many architects, but it is clear that years ago happened to belong to the club.
It was in Miami last night after hospitalized for bronchitis -Hadid had a guttural cough-remembered when he suffered a heart attack.
most emblematic works
center Cultural the Heydar Aliyev located in Baku, Azerbaijan (2013).
The Guangzhou Opera House, China (2010).
Center Aquatic London, built for the Olympic Games in 2012.
the Museum National Art 21st Century in Rome, Italy, (2009).
Center Rosenthal Contemporary Art in Cincinnati (2003)
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