Zaha Hadid is an Iraqi architect of British citizenship who has gained a worldwide reputation for her unconventional and experimental designs. Her work tries out new spatial concepts emphasising existing urban landscapes aiming to achieve a visual aesthetic that encompasses all fields of design. Her designs range from urban scale to products, interiors and furniture. She is perhaps best known for her seminal built works and becoming the first woman to win the Laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2004.
Hadid was born in Iraq in 1950 and studied architecture at the Architectural Association (AA) in London from 1972 and was awarded the Diploma Prize in 1977. Shortly afterwards, she became a partner of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), taught at the AA with OMA collaborators Rem Koolhaas and Elia Zenghelis, and later led her own studio at the AA until 1987. Some of her projects include a fire station for the Vitra Furniture Company in Weil am Rhein in Germany; LFone/Landesgartenschau, an exhibition building to mark the 1999 garden festival in that same city; a car park and Terminus Hoenheim North, a “park and ride” and tramway on the outskirts of Strasbourg, France; and a ski jump situated on the Bergisel Mountain overlooking Innsbruck, Austria.
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