CONTEMPORARY

ARCHITECTURE

ZAHA
HADID
A PHOTO DIARY
Table of contents

01 02 03
INTRODUCTION CONCEPT AWARDS
WHO, ACADEMICS, CAREER, FIVE TYPES OF CONCEPT
INSPIRATION. USED BY ZAHA HADID.

04 05
WORKS CONCLUSION
THREE MAIN WORK
01
WHO WAS ZAHA HADID?
A Brief Intro And Academic Development
● Zaha Mohammed Hussein Hadid Al-Lahibi was born in Baghdad on October 31, 1950. She
was the daughter of the former Iraqi finance minister Mohammed Hadid, in the government
of prime minister Abdul Karim Qasim.
○ She began her educational career by joining the National Nuns School in Baghdad,
where she received her primary and secondary education.
● When she was 16 years old, she was sent to internal schools in England and Switzerland.
○ Since the age of 12, Zaha aspired to become an architect, but she was not inclined to
join Cambridge University and had hoped to go to the American University of Beirut.
● In 1968, she joined the American University for the study of mathematics and did not want
to study architecture, as this program section was within the faculty of engineering, and
she did not enjoy being the only female student among the groups of male Students.
○ But at some point, she just realized that she really loved shapes, not numbers, and
she shifted her concentration to architecture.
 “I don't think that architecture
is only about shelter, is only
about a very simple enclosure.
It should be able to excite you,
to calm you, to make you
think.”
— ZAHA HADID
Mohammed Hadid, Zaha’s Father
CAREER
● In 1972 she traveled to London to study at the Architectural Association, a major centre of
progressive architectural thought during the 1970s.
○ There she met the architects Elia Zenghelis and Rem Koolhaas, with whom she would
collaborate as a partner at the Office of Metropolitan Architecture. Hadid established
her own London-based firm, Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA), in 1979.
● Soon after that, Hadid went to London where she met the famous Dutch architect Rem
Koolhaas. He noticed Zaha’s talent right away and became her mentor.
○ The mentor called Zaha “a planet in her own orbit.” After Hadid finished the university,
Koolhaas invited the young Hadid to work for his bureau in Rotterdam. After 3 years of
collaboration, Zaha decided that she was ready to start her own independent firm and
so she returned to London.
● For 17 years, Hadid’s projects got rejected and she was called a “paper architect.” Despite
the amazing number of her ideas, before the beginning of the 90s, not a single building
based on her blueprints was built. because they were believed to be insane: too impossible
to actually build.
 “You have to really believe not
only in yourself; you have to
believe that the world is
Elia Zenghelisr actually worth your
sacrifices.”
Rem Koolhaas — ZAHA HADID
INSPIRATION

● From the beginning of her career Zaha Hadid was influenced by the artist Kazimir Malevich,
who led her to use paint as a tool for architectonic exploration.
○ During the 1980s, before Zaha had realized any of her works, she was faced with
many fruitful years of theoretical architectural design.
● This art is characterized by simple geometrical shapes such as squares or rectangles with
some curved lines of strong colors.
○ Zaha was influenced by her study of the art malevich which enabled her creativity to
emerge in architectural designs without borders and gave her a way to study how the
intersection of lines and the way the lines change and deviate when followed through
the lines of the building that pass through the areas of light and shadow.
 "Architecture is like writing.
You have to edit it over and
Kazimir Malevich over so it looks effortless"

Kazimir Malevich’s Works — ZAHA HADID

02
CONCEPT
Zaha Hadid Used Five Main Concepts
Deconstructivist Topographic Forms
forms The forms of
Presents architectural topographical projects
design in an abstract were inspired by the
fashion and uses basic formation of Earth’s
geometric shapes. natural lines and terrain.

Fluid forms Organic forms

Characterized by Design idea is based on
water-like features such simulating the outer
as smooth and shape of some animals
continuous flow with and plants in nature.
undefined streamlines.

Parametric Forms
The adaptability of forms
to create vibrant and
interesting shapes.
Beko complex - Deconstructivist forms Regium waterfront - Organic forms

Cairo expo city - Fluid forms

Dubai opera house - Topographic Sunrise Tower - Parametric Forms

Forms
03
AWARDS
PRITZKER ARCHITECTURE AWARD , 2004 GLAMOUR AWARD FOR THE
ARCHITECT-IN-CHIEF , 2012

EUROPEAN UNION PRIZE

FOR CONTEMPORARY
ARCHITECTURE , 2003

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STRUCTURAL STEEL DESIGN STIRLING PRIZE , 2011, 2010
AWARDS , 2010
04
WORKS
We Are Presenting You Zaha Hadid’s Famous
Three Work.
Heydar Aliyev Center In 2013, the Heydar Aliyev Center opened to the
public in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan. The
cultural center, designed by Zaha Hadid, has
become the primary building for the nation's
cultural programs, aspiring instead to express the
sensibilities of Azeri culture and the optimism of
a nation that looks to the future.
DESIGN PRINCIPLE

● The design of the Heydar Aliyev Center establishes a continuous, fluid relationship between
its surrounding plaza and the building’s interior.
● The plaza, as the ground surface; accessible to all as part of Baku’s urban fabric, rises to
envelop an equally public interior space and define a sequence of event spaces dedicated
to the collective celebration of contemporary and traditional Azeri culture.
● Elaborate formations such as undulations, bifurcations, folds, and inflections modify this
plaza surface into an architectural landscape that performs a multitude of functions:
welcoming, embracing, and directing visitors through different levels of the interior.
● With this gesture, the building blurs the conventional differentiation between
architectural object and urban landscape, building envelope and urban plaza, figure and
ground, interior and exterior.
LONDON AQUATIC CENTER

The London Aquatics Centre is an indoor facility with two 50-metre (164-foot)
swimming pools and a 25-metre (82-foot) diving pool in Queen Elizabeth Olympic
Park in Stratford, London. The centre, designed by architect Zaha Hadid as one of
the main venues of the 2012 Summer Olympics and the 2012 Summer
Paralympics, was used for the swimming, diving and synchronised swimming
events. After significant modification, the centre opened to the public in March
2014
CONCEPT -

The architectural concept of the London Aquatic

Centre is inspired by the fluid geometries of water
in motion, creating spaces and a surrounding
environment that reflect the riverside landscapes
of the Olympic Park. An undulating roof sweeps up
from the ground as a wave - enclosing the pools
of the Centre with a unifying gesture of fluidity,
while also describing the volume of the swimming
and diving pools
GALAXY SOHO

Galaxy Soho constitutes a new office, retail and

entertainment complex for the heart of this great
Chinese city – matching its grand scale. The
complex comprises four continuous flowing
volumes, set apart yet fused or linked by a
sequence of stretched bridges. Each volume
adapts outwards, generating a panoramic
architecture devoid of corners or abrupt
transitions.
CONCEPT

This design is a new interpretation of combining the present modern

lifestyle of the locals and the classical features of the Siheyuan,
allowing visitors to experience an immersive journey throughout the
capital city of China. A Siheyuan residence is usually classified as having
a central courtyard surrounded by buildings around its perimeter.
Henceforth, the Beijing Galaxy SOHO mall has four connected wings that
form an open-air space externally which pays homage to the public
courtyards observed in Siheyuan.
Thank You!
Group Members -
Nikhil S
Pranav Balu
Prajwal BR
Rishabh C
Rohan Sahu