The Importance Of Zaha Hadid In Architecture

Zaha Hadid, often named as the most excellent female architect, was the founder of Zaha Hadid Architects studio. She occupied an important and out-standing position in architecture area and was awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2004. Each of her designs evolves nearly thirty years of researches and experimentations. Hadid was well-known for her unique ideas, critical thinking, and stream-like architectures. She was born in Baghdad, Iraq in 1950. Hadid then grew up in a well-educated Islamic family. Her drawing ability was first absorbed from her mother. During a trip to the Sumer region in southern Iraq (the site of one of the world’s oldest civilizations), her interest in architecture began to grow up flourishingly. “My father took us to see the Sumerian cities,” Hadid introduced it to Jonathan Glancey of London’s Guardian newspaper. “Then we went by boar, and then on a smaller one made of reeds, to visit villages in the marshes. The beauty of the landscape—where sand, water, reeds, birds, buildings, and people all somehow flowed together—has never left me. I’m trying to discover—invent, I suppose—an architecture, and forms of urban planning, that do something of same thing in a contemporary way.” Before moving to London to attend the Architectural

Instead, she still participated in those design competitions. Hadid claimed that “Life is never easy for those who dream.” As clients became more and more interested in Hadid’s plans, some of the plans advanced from paper to reality. She designed the Bergisel Ski Jump on a mountain near Innsbruck, Austria, and a parking garage and transit station in suburban Strasbourg, France, which later won the Mies van der Rohe Award from the European Union. In 1998, she brought out the Richard Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art in Cincinnati, which was popularly known as the Contemporary Arts