Zaha Hadid
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EDUCATION AND TEACHING
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, taught 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 Illinois, School of Architecture, Chicago; guest professorships at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Hamburg; the Knowlton School of Architecture, Ohio and the Masters Studio at Columbia University, New York. In addition, she was made Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Fellow of the American Institute of Architecture, Commander of the British Empire, 2002 and Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2012. She is currently Professor at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, Austria and was the Eero Saarinen Visiting Professor of Architectural Design at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.
PUBLICATIONS
Hadid’s work is widely published in periodicals and monographs which include “Zaha Hadid: Planetary Architecture Two” (no.11, 1983); “GA Architect: Zaha Hadid” (no.5, 1986, Japan); “Zaha Hadid”, AA files (no.5, 1986); “Zaha Hadid 1983-1991”, El Croquis (no.52, 1991, Madrid); “GA Document Extra, Zaha M Hadid” ( no.3, 1995, Japan); “Zaha Hadid 1992-1995”, El Croquis (no. 73, 1995, Madrid); “Zaha Hadid 1996- 2001”, El Croquis (no.103, 2001, Madrid); “Zaha Hadid: The Complete Buildings and Projects” (Thames & Hudson, 1998); “Zaha Hadid -LF One” (Birkhäuser, 1999); “Architecture of Zaha Hadid in photographs by Helene Binet” (Lars Muller Publishers, 2000); “Zaha Hadid, Opere e Progetti” (Italy, 2002); “Zaha Hadid Architektur”, (MAK, Vienna, 2003); GA Document (nos. 65 and 66. Japan, 200, “Zaha Hadid Space for Art” (Lars Muller Publishers, 2004); “Zaha Hadid 1983- 2004”, El Croquis (2004, Madrid); “Digital Hadid” (Birkhauser, 2004); “Car Park and Terminus Strasbourg” (Lars Muller Publishers, 2004); “Zaha Hadid Complete Works” (Thames and Hudson, 2004); “BMW Central Building” (Princeton Architectural Press, 2006); “Zaha Hadid” (Catalogue for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 2006); “GA Document, Special Issue, Zaha Hadid” (no. 99, 2007, Japan); “Zaha Hadid” (Motta Architettura, 2007), “Total Fluidity”, Catalogue for Seoul Design Olympiad Exhibition (2008); “Zaha Hadid Complete Works” (Thames and Hudson, 2009); “Hadid: Complete Works 1979- 2009” (Taschen, 2009); “MAXXI Zaha Hadid Architects” (Skira Rizzoli, 2010); “GA Document, Special Issue, Zaha Hadid” (2010, Japan); “Being Zaha Hadid”, ABITARE, Special Issue (2011, Italy); “Hadid: Complete Works 1979-2009” (Taschen, 2009); “Hadid” (Taschen, 2012)
EXHIBITIONS
Hadid's paintings and drawings have always been an important testing field, and a medium for the exploration of her design. Major exhibitions include a retrospective at the Architectural Association, London (1983), the Guggenheim Museum, New York (1978), The GA Gallery, Tokyo (1985), Deconstructivist Architecture” at MoMA, New York (1988), the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University (1995), Grand Central Station New York (1995), the San Francisco MoMA (1997/98), The Venice Architecture Biennale (2000), “Zaha Hadid Lounge” at the Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg (2001), The Venice Architecture Biennale (2002), “Zaha Hadid” MAXXI in Rome (2002), “Zaha Hadid Laboratory” in Yale (2002) -the National Building Museum, Washington (2002), “Zaha Hadid Architecture” MAK Exhibition Hall in Vienna (2003), The Venice Architecture Biennale (2004), “Zaha Hadid’s paintings” at the Somerset House in London (2004), the Deutsche Bank Collection at the Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin (2005), ‘Silver Paintings’ at the ROVE Gallery, London (2005), ‘Zaha Hadid’ Guggenheim New York (2006) and The Singapore Art Museum, Singapore (2006). Hadid's work also forms part of the permanent collections of various institutions such as MoMA New York, MoMA San Francisco and the Deutsches Architektur Museum, Frankfurt, Germany. Urban Voids, Lisbon Architecture Triennale, Lisbon (2007); Milan Furniture Fair, Milan 2007; Sofia European Architecture Week, Sofia (2007); Airs de Paris at the Pompidou Centre, Paris (2007); Global Cities at the Tate Modern, London (2007); ‘Zaha Hadid: Design & Architecture’ at the Design Museum, London (2007); Maison & Objet, Paris (2008); Silver Paintings at Art Cologne (2008); The Venice 11th International Architecture Exhibition (2008); Total Fluidity, Seoul Design Olympiad, Seoul (2008); “Zaha Hadid” – Barbara Cappochin International Biennial Architecture, Padua, Italy (2009). Zaha Hadid- Fluidity & Design, Bin Matar House, Muharraq, Bahrain (2010); Zaha Hadid and Suprematism, Galerie Gmurzynska, Zurich, Switzerland (2010); Zaha Hadid: Form in Motion, Philadelphia Museum of Art (2011), Zaha Hadid: Une Architecture, Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris (2011), “Parametric Tower Research” AIT ArchitekturSalon, Cologne (2012), Zaha Hadid, Buchmann Galerie, Berlin, Germany (2012); “Arum Installation and Exhibition” Venice Architecture Biennale (2012)
Exhibition designs are: ‘The Great Utopia', Guggenheim Museum, New York (1992); 'WishMachine' at the Vienna Kunsthalle (1996); 'Addressing the Century' at the Hayward Gallery, London (1998); Paper Art at the Leopold-Hoesch Museum, Düren (1996); Jewellery Exhibition, Zurich (2000); ‘Borderline Exhibition’ Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels (2000) and in the Salieri Suille Tracce di Mozart and the Palazzo Reale, Milan for the Da Ponte Institute (2005); 25 Years of Deutsche Bank Art at the Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin (2005); ‘Elastika’ for Design 05, Art Basel, Miami (2005); Tokyo Blossoms at The Haro Museum Installation, Tokyo (2006); The Wallpaper Magazine 10th Anniversary Exhibition, Milan (2006); Ideal House, IMM Cologne Fair (2007), Hauser & Wirth Gallery, London (2008), Sonnabend Gallery and Kenny Schachter/ROVE, New York, 2008; ); “Zaha Hadid” - Barbara Cappochin International Biennial Architecture, Padua, Italy (2009); Egyptian Pavilion at Shanghai Expo, Shanghai (2010); ‘Zaha Hadid- Fluidity & Design’, Bahrain (2010); ‘Zaha Hadid and Suprematism’, Zurich (2010); ‘Zaha Hadid: Une Architecture’, France (2011); ‘Form in Motion’, Philadelphia, USA (2011); Zaha Hadid Design Gallery with Fudge Hair, UK (2012)
AWARDS
59 Eaton Place, London -Gold Medal Architectural Design, British Architecture, 1982 Honourable Member of the Bund Deutsches Architekten, 1998 Honourable Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, 2000 Honorary Fellowship of the American Institute of Architects, 2000
Mind Zone, Millennium Dome, London - RIBA Awards 2000 Car Park and Terminus Hoenheim North, Strasbourg - Equerre d'Argent special mention, 2001 Car Park and Terminus Hoenheim North, Strasbourg - AIA UK Chapter Award, 2002 One-north Master Plan, Singapore - AIA UK Chapter Honourable Mention, 2002 Car Park and Terminus Hoenheim North, Strasbourg - Red Dot Award, 2002 Bergisel Ski-Jump, Innsbruck - Austrian State Architecture Prize, 2002 Bergisel Ski-Jump, Innsbruck -Tyrolean Architecture Award, 2002 Commander of the British Empire, CBE, 2002 Car Park and Terminus Hoenheim North, Strasbourg -Mies van der Rohe Award, 2003 Architect of the year 2004 - Blueprint Award Rosenthal Centre for Contemporary Art, Cincinnati - RIBA Worldwide Award, 2004 Zaha Hadid, Laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, 2004 London Architect of the year, London Architectural Biennale, 2004 Honorary Fellow of Columbia University, New York City, 2005
Member of the Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2005 RIBA Medal, European Commercial Building of the Year (BMW Central Building) 2005 Deutsche Architektur Prize, Building of the Year (BMW Central Building) 2005 Finalist for the RIBA Stirling Prize (BMW Central Building) 2005 Gold Medal for Design, International Olympic Committee (Bergisel Ski Jump) 2005 Austrian Decoration of Science and Art, Commissions of Science and Art, Austria, 2005 Designer of the Year, Design 05 Art Basel Miami, 2005 AIA UK Chapter Award (Phaeno Science Center) 2006 Honorary Doctorate, Yale University, USA, 2006 RIBA Medal, European Cultural Building of the Year (Phaeno Science Center) 2006 Honorary Doctorate, American University of Beirut, 2006 Finalist for the RIBA Stirling Prize (Phaeno Science Center) 2006 RIBA Jencks Award, 2006 Academician, The International Academy of Architecture, 2006 Leading European Architects Forum (LEAF) Award (Phaeno Science Center) 2006 AIA UK Chapter Award for Excellence (Maggie’s Centre Fife) 2007 Finalist for the Mies van der Rohe Award for European Architecture (Phaeno Science Center) 2007 Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Architecture, USA, 2007 Scottish Design Awards, Best Public Building Award (Maggie’s Centre, Fife) 2007 London Design Medal, Outstanding Contribution for Design, 2007 Travel & Leisure Award, USA (Nordpark Cable Railway), 2007 Maison & Objet Designer of the Year, 2008 Dedalo Minosse International Prize for Commissioning a Building (BMW Central Building) 2008 Honorary Degree from The Pratt Institute, New York City, 2008 Spirit of Achievement Award, New York City, 2008 Cityscape Architectural Award, Dubai (Signature Towers), 2008 Chicago Athenaeum Award, Chicago (Maggie’s Centre, Fife) 2008 RIBA European Award, UK (Nordpark Cable Railway) 2008 Architektur und Tirol, Austria (Nordpark Cable Railway) 2008 World Architecture Festival Transport Category, Barcelona, (Nordpark Cable Railway) 2008 RIBA Stirling Prize Nomination (Nordpark Cable Railway) 2008 Conde’ Nast Innovation&Design Award, London (Zaragoza Bridge Pavilion) 2009 Architectural Digest Spain Editor’s Award, Madrid, 2009 Praemium Imperiale, The Japanese Art Association, Tokyo, 2009 DDI Awards “Neil Barrett Flagship Store, Tokyo” 2009 The Sunday Times Fast-track 100, 2009 The Times ’50 People of the Decade’, 2009 Time Magazine’s “The World’s100 Most Influential People” 2010 UNESCO Artist for Peace, Paris, 2010 RIBA Stirling Prize (MAXXI, National Museum of XXI Century Arts) 2010 Structural Steel Design Awards, Glasgow Riverside Museum of Transport, 2010 Structural Steel Design Awards, London Aquatics Centre, 2010 Best Small Project Award, SEAOI, Burnham Pavilion, 2010 The Sunday Times ‘100 Top International Companies’ 2010 Innovation & Design Awards, Conde Nast, MAXXI Museum, 2010 The New Statesman ’50 People Who Matter 2010’, Zaha Hadid, 2010 Woman of the Year Outstanding Achivement Award, 2010 Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, 2010 WAF World Building of the Year (MAXXI, National Museum of XXI Century Arts) 2010 Visionary of the Year, Harper’s Bazaar, 2010 Conde’ Nast Innovation & Design Award, London (MAXXI, National Museum of XXI Century Arts) 2010 American Institute of Architects UK Chapter Award, (Guangzhou Opera House) 2011 RIBA European Award 2011 (Evelyn Grace Academy) RIBA Stirling Prize 2011 (Evelyn Grace Academy) RIBA Award 2011 (Guangzhou Opera House) Philadelphia Museum of Art, Collab Design Excellence Award 2011: Zaha Hadid Honourary Doctorate from the University of the Arts, London: Zaha Hadid, 2011 Foreign Policy Magazine “Top 100 Global Thinkers of 2011” : Zaha Hadid, 2011 Arabian Business Magazine “The World’s 50 Most Powerful Arabs’ : Zaha Hadid, 2011 Newsweek Magazine ‘150 Women Who Shake The World’: Zaha Hadid, 2011 Huffington Post Game Changer 2011: Zaha Hadid First Prize, Outstanding Engineering Design Excellence in China (Guangzhou Opera House) 2011 International Road Federation, Global Road Achievement Award for Design (Sheikh Zayed Bridge) 2012 Travel & Leisure Award, Berlin (Sheikh Zayed Bridge) 2012 Jane Drew Prize ‘Outstanding contribution to the status of women in architecture’ 2012 The Sunday Times ‘Makers & Shakers 1962-2012’ Gulf Business Magazine, World’s Most Influential Arabs for 2012 European Museum Academy Micheletti Award 2012 (Riverside Museum) The Design Week Awards 2012 (Roca London Gallery) Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire 2012 (Zaha Hadid) Architectural Record Magazine China Award, Best Public Project 2012 (Guangzhou Opera House) Women of the Year 2012, Glamour Magazine (Zaha Hadid) Honorary President of the FT/Citi Ingenuity Awards Urban Ideas in Action programme judging committee (Zaha Hadid) Best Retail Space, FX International Interior Design Awards 2012 (Roca London Gallery) Best of Year Awards 2012, Interior Design 'Beauty / Spa / Fitness' (London Aquatics Centre) DLD 2013 ‘The Aenne Burda Award for Creative Leadership’ (Zaha Hadid)