The world of architecture stumbled last Thursday at the unexpected death at 65 years of Anglo-Iraqi Zaha Hadid, a woman who transformed the discipline with his expertise in designing elegant and curvaceous structures.
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 devoted his worldwide fame with the refined Aquatic Center that up to the 2012 Summer Olympics.
it was one of the women most respected in the circles of international architecture since 1979 established his own office in London and began participating 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 she 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 extracted using rocks the foundation to create artificial hills and alter the natural topography of the area.
That building laid the foundation for future work, always a step beyond traditional architecture 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 plans never came to collect physical form, but these projects served to the Anglo-Iraqi forge a style and a name was made in 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 to 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.
When at 54 years 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.
Opera Guangzhou, 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 highlights the Bridge pavilion Expo Zaragoza 2008 or the Master Plan Zorrotzaurre to remodel the area of Bilbao, while in Latin America it left little trace, with still some work in progress, like the Sphere Downtown Monterrey Mexico or the Atlantic House residential building in Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro
in recent years, he had collected some of the more awards prestigious 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 Architecture British (RIBA), Hadid took the opportunity to defend the role of women in architecture.
“Today we 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.
His death has provoked many reactions, such as the British architect Richard Rodgers, who has qualified as a “huge architect and a magnificent 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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