𝐏𝐎𝐒𝐓 𝟕: 𝐀𝐍 𝐄𝐗𝐏𝐄𝐑𝐓 𝐎𝐍 𝐌𝐘 𝐅𝐈𝐄𝐋𝐃📐

Hello everyone, through this post, I'm going to write about an expert I admire in the architecture career.

Zaha Hadid. (1950-2016)

Zaha Hadid was an Iraqi-English deconstructivist architect, who was born on October 31, 1950 in Baghdad, the capital of Iraq. She died on March 31, 2016. 

She began her studies, studying mathematics at the American University of Beirut, before moving in 1972 to London to study architecture at the prestigious Architectural Association School of Architecture. 

After graduating, Zaha Hadid began working in the studio of her former professors Rem Koolhaas and Elia Zenghelis, becoming their partner in 1977. After this, Hadid decided to set up her own architectural firm, Zaha Hadid Architects, in 1980. 

Her international reputation skyrocketed in 1988 after her incredible architectural drawings were shown in the acclaimed exhibition "Deconstructivism in Architecture" at the MoMA Museum in New York.

Over the years, she went down in history as the first woman to receive numerous awards at the time. She received the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2004. She also received the Mies van der Rohe Award and the Stirling Prize in 2010 and 2011. In 2012 she was appointed by the Queen of England as a Commander of the Order of the British Empire, and in 2015 she became the first woman to receive the Gold Medal of the RIBA (The British Architects' Association).

This talented woman built a series of architectural works characterized by a non-linear design, completely dominated by the curve with which she intended to provide cities with utopian realities in urban scenes. He carried out a large number of works in a short period of time due to the furor of starchitects (star architects) in the 2000s.

Among his most famous works are: Heydar Aliyev Center (Azeibaryan), Guangzhou Opera House (China), London Aquatic Center (England), Bridge Pavilion (Spain), Galaxy SOHO (China), MAXXI (Italy).

     Hadid, Zaha. Heydar Aliyev Center. 2012. Baku.

 

 

 Hadid, Zaha. Galaxy SOHO. 2009. Beijing.

The fact that Hadid was so different from my way of thinking and way of seeing architecture with what I have been learning and studying, makes me value, like and admire her even more. Sometimes the works that surprise us most and make us reflect are, paradoxically, those that we consider more distant from the approaches to which we believe we feel more linked. I never imagined that such works could exist in real life until I met her.

She had such a strong language of her own that she mastered with great skill. She was able to design shoes, a library or any object and building with the same lines, the result being real shoes or a working library. 

Undoubtedly, she was a very important architect, who to this day is part of the history of architecture, for her great talent, for her great contribution to contemporary architecture and for having been the first woman to reach a place hitherto reserved only for men.

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𝐏𝐎𝐒𝐓 𝟔: 𝐌𝐘 𝐂𝐀𝐓 𝐌𝐀𝐇𝐔𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐇𝐎🐱✨

Hello everyone, through this post, today I'm going to write to you about some anecdotes I had with one of my beautiful cats.

These pictures were taken by me, I don't remember exactly on what day, but I do know that it was in the year 2017, because of what I was doing in the pictures, so I can deduce that it was in that year.

That beautiful kitten was named Mahuencho. I adopted him in 2016 along with his siblings, since I found them inside a box in the street and I couldn't leave them there, I felt I had to help them. As I have a grandmother's heart, as they say. I took them to my house, without taking into account my parents' opinion. At the beginning they weren't happy with the arrival of these 4 kittens, because we hadn't had one for years and they said they're too many, but with the months they became the sweethearts of the house and of my parents. In fact, they loved the cats more than me ajajaj.

I love these pictures, because they show a very cute and funny moment I had with Mahuencho, because as he was considered a baby by everyone and he knew it, he was very spoiled and always wanted attention. 

I remember that, in the first picture, he had to hand in a work and expose about the Cerebellum. As I was concentrating on doing that, he jumped up on the table, so that I would make him love it and stop working. As he noticed that I was still working, he started playing with the poster board and throwing the pencils at me. I scolded him a little bit and then out of nowhere he disappeared, I continued working and I started to notice that the cardboard was moving by itself and I got scared, thinking it was something paranormal, but it was him inside JAJAJA. It was a very funny moment, it made my night, since I was stressed out because of the amount of things I had to do and that moment made me more than happy, so I ended up giving him love and he ended up falling asleep in my arms.

The second picture, represents something very similar. I had a test for physics, so I was studying and he wanted attention, so he climbed on top of my things so I would stop studying and give him love hahaha. To make his act more unnoticed, he started licking himself, but I already knew that's what he wanted jajaja.

In summary, these pictures represent some of the cute and funny moments I lived with him. Unfortunately he's no longer with me, he died 1 year later, which was very painful for me and for all my family, since he wasn't just a cat or a pet for us, but he was a son and a brother of the family. (It's incredible how much love you can feel for a being that by nature is an animal).

Today we still remember him, I have pictures of him in my house and I still have all the ones I took of him with my phone. Also, 2 of his siblings are still with us, as sadly another one of them died away a few months later. However, both of them will always remain with us and I doubt that I'll forget them. For all the beautiful moments I lived by their sides, since I found them as newborns and gave them milk, until I saw them grow into adults. 

I miss them so much u.u

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