Zaha Hadid was born October 31, 1950 in Baghdad, Iraq. She received a degree in mathematics from the American University of Beirut before moving to study at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London. After graduating she worked with her former teachers, Rem Koolhaas and Elia Zenghelis at the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, becoming a partner in 1977. It was with Koolhaas that she met Peter Rice who gave her support and encouragement early on, at a time when her work seemed difficult to build. In 1980 she established her own London-based practice. During the 1980s she also taught at the Architectural Association. She has also taught at prestigious institutions around the world; she held the Kenzo Tange Chair at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, the Sullivan Chair at the University of Illinois School of Architecture in Chicago, guest professorships at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Hamburg, the Knolton School of Architecture, at the Ohio State University, the Masters Studio at Columbia University, New York and the Eero Saarinen Visiting Professor of Architectural Design at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. In addition, she was made Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and Fellow of the American Institute of Architects. She is currently Professor at the University of Applied Arts Vienna in Austria.

A winner of many international competitions, theoretically influential and groundbreaking, a number of Hadid's winning designs were initially never built: notably, The Peak Club in Hong Kong (1983) and the Cardiff Bay Opera House in Wales (1994). In 2002 Hadid won the international design competition to design Singapore's one-north masterplan. In 2005, her design won the competition for the new city casino of Basel, Switzerland. In 2004 Hadid became the first female recipient of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, architecture's equivalent of the Nobel Prize. Previously, she had been awarded a CBE for services to architecture. She is a member of the editorial board of the Encyclopædia Britannica. In 2006, Hadid was honoured with a retrospective spanning her entire work at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. In that year she also received an Honorary Degree from the American University of Beirut.

Guggenheim-Hermitage Vilnius, Vilnius, Lithuania

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Eli and Edythe Broad Museum, Michigan State University

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CMA CGM Tower, Marseille, France

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Bridge Pavilion (2008), Zaragoza, Spain

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Kartal Urban Transformation (2008) (projected), Istanbul, Turkey

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Riverside Museum (2007-2011) (projected) development of Glasgow Transport Museum, Scotland

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Nordkettenbahn (aerial tramway) (2007), Innsbruck, Austria

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Nuragic and Contemporary art museum (2006) (under construction), Cagliari, Italy

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i like her work.we need to give this woman a job.

well, you forgot to place here most famous project, the BMW factory in Germany

Yury Dolgoruky Tower (Moscow, Russia)

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Night Opera ( Dubai, Emirates)

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great topic Relaldinho, Zaha also did the current BMW factory for the 1 and 3 series.

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yes its the leipzig plant, zaha is mentioned @ 43 seconds

BMW Central Building (2005), Leipzig, Germany

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yes its the leipzig plant, zaha is mentioned @ 43 seconds

I love it ! Zaha Hadid is the most creative designer I have ever seen .

^^ i am a big fan of Zaha also, her designs are dramanic and fresh, very non boring

The Opus is an AAA commercial tower in the Business Bay district of Dubai which reflects Omniyat Properties' passion for innovation as well as the creative genius of the architect Zaha Hadid.

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