Profile of Zaha Hadid Architects

Profile of Zaha Hadid Architects
Zaha Hadid was born in Baghdad in 1950. She studied architecture
at the Architectural Association (AA) in London from 1972 and was
awarded the Diploma Prize in 1977. She then became a partner of
the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), taught at the AA with
OMA collaborators Rem Koolhaas and Elia Zenghelis, and later led
her own studio at the AA until 1987.
She was made Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Fellow of the
American Institute of Architecture and Commander of the British Empire, 2002. She is currently
Professor at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, Austria and is the Eero Saarinen Visiting
Professor of Architectural Design at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.
In 2004, she became the first woman to receive the Pritzker Architecture Prize. Her
masterpieces include the Chanel mobile art museum, a travelling exhibition featuring pieces
inspired by the Chanel quilt bag; Germany's Phaeno Science Centre, located in Wolfsburg; and
the BMW Central Building, located in Leipzig.
Projects by Zaha Hadid Architects
Zaha Hadid’s work of the past 30 years was the subject of a critically-acclaimed retrospective
exhibition at New York’s Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in 2006. Her projects include the
Contemporary Arts Centre, Cincinnati, USA (2003), the Hotel Puerta America interior in Madrid,
Spain (2005), the Ordrupgaard Museum Extension in Copenhagen, Denmark (2005), the
Nordpark Cable Railway, Innsbruck, Austria (2007) and the Zaragoza Bridge Pavilion in Spain
(2008). In 2009, Hadid’s revolutionary design for the National Museum of Contemporary Art will
open in Rome, Italy and the Guangzhou Opera House will open in China.
Projects by Zaha Hadid Architects which recently won design competitions include a new
National Art Museum in Vilnius, Lithuania; the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum in Michigan,
USA; and the King Abdullah II Performing Arts Centre in Amman, Jordan (joint first prize).
Contact:
Zaha Hadid Architects
Email: press@zaha-hadid.com
Portfolio Showcase
Vitra Fire Station, Germany
Zaragoza Bridge Pavilion, Spain
Bergisel Ski Jump, Innsbruck, Austria
Contemporary Arts Centre, Cincinnati, USA
ZHA Hotel Puerta America, Spain
Chanel Mobile Art Museum
Moon System Sofa for B&B Italia
Louis Vuitton Icone Bag, 2006
All images courtesy of Zaha Hadid Architects and the following:
- Zaha Hadid portrait photography by Steve Double
- Vitra Fire Station photography by Christian Richters
- Chanel Mobile Art photography by Virgile Simon Bertrand
- Zaragoza Bridge Pavilion photography by Fernando Guerra
- Contemporary Arts Centre Cincinnati photography by Roland Halbe
- Moon System Sofa photography by Fabrizio Bergamo