Zaha Hadid

Birth and Upbringing

Zaha Hadid was born on

October 31, 1950 in
Baghdad, the daughter
of Muhammad Hadid,
who was Minister of
Finance between
1958 and 1963.
Study and
Training
She studied mathematics at
the American University in
the Lebanese capital, Beirut,
before joining the
Architectural Association in
London and obtaining a leave
of absence from it in 1977,
and later became a teacher in
the association.
 Functions
Responsibilities

She worked as a teaching

assistant in a college, and
then was appointed visiting
professor and chair professor
in several universities in
Europe and a prince, including
Harvard, Hamburg, Ohio,
Columbia and New York.
 Awards

She was the first woman

to receive the
Pritzker Architecture
Prize, in 2004.
 Awards
In2010,she was made a
Dame by Elizabeth II for
services to architecture.
In 2010, she was also
named the fourth most
powerful woman in the
world.
 Awards

In 2015 she became the first

and only woman to be
awarded the Royal Gold
Medal from the Royal
Institute of British Architects.
Queen of the
Curve
She was described by The
Guardian of London as the
'Queen of the curve', who
"liberated architectural
geometry, giving it a whole
new expressive identity."
Her major works include
the aquatic centre for the
London 2012, Olympics
 5 of the BestBuildings Designed by Zaha
Hadid
Zaha Hadid is not just an
ordinary architect, she is a
phenomenon that will go
down in the history books.
 Quotes From Zaha Hadid
"I've always been cool, I wouldn't say pretty"

"I'm into fashion and she's in the mood for the day, right now -
like music, literature and art"

"People say I design architectural icons, if I design

a building, and it becomes an icon, that's fine"
Death of Zaha Hadid

In 2016. Iraqi-British architect

Zaha Hadid died Thursday
at the age of 65, after suffering
a heart attack in a Miami hospital
in the United States..
engineering experience

Zaha Hadid has completed many international designs such as an ice skating platform in Innsbruck, Austria, the
Guangzhou Opera House in China and Cardiff, the capital of Wales, as well as the National Museum of Twenty-first
Century Art in Rome (MAXI), Heydar Aliyev Center in Baku, and a complex in the High Line Manhattan.