Achievements: In 2004 she became the first woman to win the Pritzker prize for architecture and this year the first to be awarded the RIBA royal gold medal. She made the Forbes' List of Most Powerful Women. Hadid was made a Dame by Queen Elizabeth II in 2012. When the Design Museum in London gave Hadid her first British retrospective in 2007, it was the most successful architecture show the museum had ever staged. | Name: Zaha Hadid Pronunciation: Za-hah Ha-deed Art Movement: Contemporary Art Born: 1950 in Iraq. Died: 2016 Main Medium: Architecture, Illustration About the Artist: Later she went to a boarding school in England, gained a maths degree at the American University of Beirut, and then, most importantly, studied at the Architectural Association school in London. With her architectural partner Patrik Schumacher, she built an architecture firm with 400 employees. About the Artwork: Each of her projects transformed notions of what can be achieved in concrete, glass, and steel. Hadid's first commercial project was a small building in Germany, a firefighter garage.It was a dynamic composition based on seemingly razor-sharp shards of concrete. She was one of the first architects to build on a large scale in China, where she completed two extraordinary complexes in Beijing, involving a mix of high-rises and lower blocks. Hadid belonged to the last generation of architects to work with tracing paper and T-squares. She talked about the care with which she would use a pen and a ruler to draw. [Source] |
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