Zaha Hadid
This biographical article is written like a résumé. Please help improve it by revising it to be neutral and encyclopedic. (March 2014) Zaha Hadid Born Zaha Mohammad Hadid (1950-10-31) 31 October 1950 (age 64) Baghdad, Iraq Nationality Iraqi-British Alma mater American University of Beirut Architectural Association School of Architecture Practice Zaha Hadid Architects Buildings Maxxi, Bridge Pavilion, Maggie's Centre, Contemporary Arts Center Website www.zaha-hadid.com Bridge Pavilion in Zaragoza, Spain Bergisel Ski Jump, Innsbruck, Austria BMW Central Building, Leipzig, Germany Vitra fire station, Weil am Rhein, Germany Maggie's Centre, Kirkcaldy Contemporary Arts Center, Hadid's first American work in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA Phæno Science Center, Wolfsburg, Germany The Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at 547 East Circle Drive, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan USA. Library and Learning Center (left, architect: Zaha Hadid), Departement 1 and Teaching Center (right, architect: Laura Spinadel) Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid, DBE (Arabic: زها حديد Zahā Ḥadīd; born 31 October 1950) is an Iraqi-British architect. She received the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2004—the first woman to do so—and the Stirling Prize in 2010 and 2011. Her buildings are distinctively neofuturistic, characterised by the "powerful, curving forms of her elongated structures" with "multiple perspective points and fragmented geometry to evoke the chaos of modern life". She is currently professor at the University of Applied Arts Vienna in Austria.