Zaha Hadid: a life in projects
Dezeen remembers Pritzker Prize-winning architect Zaha Hadid, who has died suddenly aged 65, with a selection of projects that demonstrate her importance to contemporary architecture (+ slideshow).
Hadid suffered a heart attack earlier today, following treatment for bronchitis at a Miami hospital. One of the most prominent and successful female architects in the world, she has won countless awards and accolades for her contribution to architecture.
MAXXI museum, Rome, 2009
The Iraqi-born British architect was the first woman to be awarded the Pritzker Prize ? architecture's equivalent of the Nobel Prize ? in 2004, and the first woman to be win the RIBA's Royal Gold Medal in her own right.
A graduate of London's Architectural Association in 1977, she worked with former professors Rem Koolhaas and Elia Zenghelis at OMA, before establishing London-based Zaha Hadid Architects in 1979, which she ran with Patrik Schumacher. Evelyn Grace Academy, London, 2010
Her use of unusual shapes became apparent in early competition proposals for The Peak terminus in Hong Kong (1983), the Kurfürstendamm in Berlin (1986), and the Cardiff Bay Opera House in Wales (1994).
But it was the 1993 Vitra Fire Station in Weil Am Rhein, Germany ? her first major built project ? that thrust Hadid into the spotlight. Although the building was deemed unsuitable by users, its angled concrete walls and sharply pointed portico gained attention from critics and launched her career.
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