By: Alicia Luthy
Hey everyone!
This week we had our mid reviews for thesis. With that being said, it has been
a long week. This week though the architecture scene lost a great woman and an
inspiration to woman in architecture, Zaha Hadid. She was in a Miami hospital
being treated for bronchitis and suffered from a heart attack. So for this week
I decided to write about Zaha and some of her work.
Zaha was born
on October 31, 1950 in Baghdad, Iraq. She studied mathematics at the American
University of Beirut before moving to London to attend the Architectural
Association School. She became a partner for Metropolitan Architecture. Zaha
Hadid was the founder of her own firm Zaha Hadid architects where they have 950
projects, 44 different countries, 400 staff members, and work in 55 nations.
Also, she has taught at many universities. In 2004, she received the Pritzer
Architecture Prize and was awarded the Royal Gold Metal in 2016. She was the
first woman to have ever won the Royal Gold Metal. The China International
Exchange Committee for Tall Buildings selected two of Hadid’s designs for
China’s best tall buildings. She was known as the “Queen of the Curve”. Some of
her works include the Dubai Opera, Heydar Aliyev Center, Galaxy Soho, and the Al
Wakrah Stadium. The Dubai Opera is a
2,000 seat, multi-format, performing art centre. It is styled on the classic
wooden dhows that symbolize the Dubai Creek.
The Al Wakrah has caused a lot on controversy and has yet to be built
but we shall see what happens.
I will miss
the work new works f Zaha Hadid but am happy we got to experience such a great
architect. She has been an inspiration to me as a young woman pursuing
architecture. I hope her legacies live
on through her firm and the designers who worked with her daily. RIP Zaha Hadid.
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