Zaha Hadid: Most Powerful Women In Architecture
Indeed! This Iraq-born woman had proven her saying by handling more than 950 projects in more than 44 countries with offices in four countries outside the UK. Well-known as an architect who constantly pushes the limitations of architecture and urban design, her work experiments with new three-dimensional concepts exaggerating existing urban landscapes and encircling all fields of design.
She entered the history of architectural design with a fame spread enormously throughout the world. Her path was not straight and easy; it was wobbly, narrow and full with challenges. She has gone to a lot of effort and expense to be what she is now. She passed through desperate times; she flopped and she thrived. She was the first woman and Muslim to win the prestigious Pritzker Prize, architecture's equivalent of the Nobel Prize and the first woman and Muslim to earn the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Stirling Prize. She ranked 69th on the Forbes list of ‘The World's 100 Most Powerful Women’ in 2008.
Born in Baghdad Iraq in 1950, Zaha Hadid began her college studies in the field of mathematics at the American University in Beirut. In 1972 she moved to London to study architecture at the Architectural Association (AA). She joined the Office of Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) upon her graduation in 1977. Together with OMA …show more content…
Her firm has gone to create internationally praised award-winning architectural designs around the world. Zaha Hadid was appointed to teach in a number of institutions. In 1994 she was part of the academic teaching group in three different institutions in the United States: the Kenzo Tange Chair at Harvard University's School of Design, University of Illinois's School of Architecture, the Sullivan Chair, and the Master Studio at Columbia University. Since then, the prominent University for Applied Arts has appointed her as professor in Vienna, Austria in the year
She entered the history of architectural design with a fame spread enormously throughout the world. Her path was not straight and easy; it was wobbly, narrow and full with challenges. She has gone to a lot of effort and expense to be what she is now. She passed through desperate times; she flopped and she thrived. She was the first woman and Muslim to win the prestigious Pritzker Prize, architecture's equivalent of the Nobel Prize and the first woman and Muslim to earn the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Stirling Prize. She ranked 69th on the Forbes list of ‘The World's 100 Most Powerful Women’ in 2008.
Born in Baghdad Iraq in 1950, Zaha Hadid began her college studies in the field of mathematics at the American University in Beirut. In 1972 she moved to London to study architecture at the Architectural Association (AA). She joined the Office of Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) upon her graduation in 1977. Together with OMA …show more content…
Her firm has gone to create internationally praised award-winning architectural designs around the world. Zaha Hadid was appointed to teach in a number of institutions. In 1994 she was part of the academic teaching group in three different institutions in the United States: the Kenzo Tange Chair at Harvard University's School of Design, University of Illinois's School of Architecture, the Sullivan Chair, and the Master Studio at Columbia University. Since then, the prominent University for Applied Arts has appointed her as professor in Vienna, Austria in the year