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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