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Zaha Hadid is a London-based Architectural Designer, whose work encompasses all fields of design, ranging from urban scale through to products, interiors and furniture. Central to her concerns is a simultaneous engagement in practice, teaching and research, in the pursuit of an uncompromising commitment to modernism.
Hadid studied architecture at the Architectural Association from 1972 and was awarded the Diploma Prize in 1977. She then became a partner of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture; began teaching at the AA with OMA collaborators Rem Koolhaas and Elia Zenghelis; and later led her own studio at the AA until 1987. Since then she held the Kenzo Tange Chair at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, the Sullivan Chair at the University of Chicago School of Architecture, guest professorships at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Hamburg, the Knolton School of Architecture, Ohio and at the Masters Studio at Columbia University, New York. She will be the Eero Saarinen Visiting Professor of Architectural Design for the Spring Semester 2002 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 Architecture, and is Professor at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna.Hadid has been testing the boundaries of architectural design in a series of research based competitions.
Winning designs include:
The Peak, Hong Kong (1983)
Kurfürstendamm, Berlin (1986)
Düsseldorf Art and Media Centre (1992/93)
Cardiff Bay Opera House, Wales (1994)
Thames Water/Royal Academy Habitable Bridge Competition (1996)
the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati (1998)
University of North London Holloway Road Bridge (1998)
the Centre for Contemporary Arts, Rome(1999)
the Bergisel Ski-jump in Innsbruck, Austria (1999)
