Zaha Hadid is quite a celebrity, the first female Architect to win Pritzker Prize, Dame Zaha
Hadid, DBE is British Architect, famous for her
futuristic designs of buildings, boats, furniture, shoes and almost everything
I guess. Born in Baghdad, Iraq,
“grew up in the first Bauhaus inspired building in Baghdad."(Wikipedia) Educated at
American University, Beirut, Lebanon and Architectural Association School of
Architecture, London". She is as international as one can be.
She has taught at prestigious universities
around the world, including at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where she was the Kenzo Tange Professorship
and the Sullivan Chair at the University of Illinois at Chicago's School of Architecture. She also served as guest professor at the Hochscule fur bildende Kunste Hamburg, Germany, the Knowlton School of Architecture at Ohio State University, the Masters Studio at Columbia University,
and Visiting Professor of Architectural Design at the Yale School of Architecture. From the year 2000 on Dame Zaha Hadid is a guest
professor at The University of Applied Arts - Vienna, in the Zaha Hadid Master
Class Vertical-Studio.
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Aquatics Center, London-2012 Olympics |
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Aquatics Center London-interior view |
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Bridge Pavilion Zaragoza, Spain |
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Library & Learning Center University of Economics & Business, Vienna, Austria |
Interior view of University of Vienna, Austria |
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BMW Central building |
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Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati |
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Guangzhou Opera House, Guangzhou China |
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Guangzhou Opera House interior |
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Heydar Aliyev Cultural Center, Baku |
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Heydar Aliyev Center, interior |
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Scotland's Museum of Transportation, Glasgow |
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Interior view of the Museum of Transportation |
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Chanel Mobile Art Pavilion |
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Zany Beko Building, downtown Belgrade |
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Sheikh Zayed Bridge, UAE |
Future/under-construction projects:
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New York City High line park, W 28th street Luxury Condo. |
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National Stadium in Tokyo |
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Interior concept of National Stadium, Tokyo |
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Dubai Opera House, Dubai |
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Birdseye rendering Dubai Opera House |
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Construction site Dubai Opera |
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Superyacht for Blohm + Voss |
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Superyacht |
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Zaha Hadid and Karl Lagerfeld |
Credits: Zaha HAdid Architects, google, wikipedia etc