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Zaha Hadid: 'Being an Arab and a woman is a double-edged sword'
Zaha Hadid on growing up in Iraq, getting the architecture bug, and the legacy of her Olympics Aquatics Centre
Zaha Hadid: 'As a woman in architecture, you need confidence.' Photograph: Dan Chung for the Guardian
Zaha Hadid is one of the world's foremost architects. She was the first woman to win the Pritzker Prize, the most prestigious award in architecture. Hadid designed the London Aquatics Centre for the Olympic Games.
It's still very difficult for women to operate as professionals, because there are still some worlds women have no access to. No matter what you do, because you're a woman, you cannot enter. But I don't believe that stereotype remains in architecture. In the last 15 years there's been tremendous change. Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, established female architects all the time.
That doesn't mean it's easy. Sometimes the difficulties are incomprehensible. Architecture is a very tough profession.
In my case, I'm a woman and an Arab. Being an Arab woman and a modern architect certainly don't exclude each other – when I was growing up in Iraq, there were many women architects. You cannot believe the enormous resistance I've faced just for being an Arab, and a woman on top of that. It is like a double-edged sword. The moment my woman-ness is accepted, the Arab-ness seems to become a problem.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2012/nov/14/zaha-hadid-woman-arab-double-edged-sword
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Bridge Pavilion in Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain
Bergisel Ski Jump, Innsbruck, Austria
BMW Central Building, Leipzig, Germany
Vitra fire station, Weil am Rhein, Germany
Maggie's Centre, Kirkcaldy
Contemporary Arts Center, Hadid's first American work in Cincinnati, Ohio
Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid, DBE (Arabic: ??? ????? Zah? ?ad?d; born 31 October 1950) is an Iraqi-British architect and winner of the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2004, and the Stirling Prize in 2010 and 2011.
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Career
She taught at prestigious institutions around the world; she held the Kenzo Tange Chair at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, the Sullivan Chair at the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Architecture, guest professorships at the Hochschule fr bildende Knste Hamburg, the Knowlton School of Architecture, at The Ohio State University, the Masters Studio at Columbia University, New York and the Eero Saarinen Visiting Professor of Architectural Design at the Yale School of Architecture in New Haven, Connecticut. She was named an Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and an Honorary Fellow of the American Institute of Architects. She has been on the Board of Trustees of The Architecture Foundation. She is currently Professor at the University of Applied Arts Vienna in Austria. In 2002, she won the international design competition to design Singapore's one-north master plan. In 2005, her design won the competition for the new city casino of Basel, Switzerland.[SUP][citation needed][/SUP]
In 2004 Hadid became the first female and first Muslim[SUP][1][/SUP] recipient of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, architecture's equivalent of the Nobel Prize. She is a member of the editorial board of the Encyclopdia Britannica. In 2006, she was honoured with a retrospective spanning her entire work at the Guggenheim Museum in New York; that year she also received an Honorary Degree from the American University of Beirut. Her architectural design firm, Zaha Hadid Architects, employs more than 350 people, and is headquartered in a Victorian former school building in Clerkenwell, London.
In 2008, she ranked 69th on the Forbes list of "The World's 100 Most Powerful Women".[SUP][2][/SUP] On 2 January 2009, she was the guest editor of the BBC's flagship morning radio news programme, Today.[SUP][3][/SUP]
In 2010 she was named by Time magazine as influential thinker in the 2010 TIME 100 issue.[SUP][4][/SUP] In September 2010, The British magazine New Statesman listed Zaha Hadid at number 42 in their annual survey of "The World's 50 Most Influential Figures 2010".[SUP][5][/SUP]
She won the Stirling Prize two years running: in 2010, for one of her most celebrated works, the Maxxi in Rome, and in 2011 for the Evelyn Grace Academy, a Z-shapes school in Brixton.
Hadid is the designer of the Dongdaemun Design Plaza & Park in Seoul, South Korea, which is expected to be the centerpiece of the festivities for the city's designation as World Design Capital 2010. The complex is scheduled to be completed in 2011.
Hadid was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 2002 and Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2012 Birthday Honours for services to architecture.[SUP][6][/SUP]
Interior architecture and product design
She has also undertaken some high-profile interior work, including the Mind Zone and Feet zone at the Millennium Dome in London as well as creating fluid furniture installations within the Georgian surroundings of Home House private members club in Marylebone, and the Z.CAR hydrogen-powered, three-wheeled automobile. In 2009, she worked with the clothing brand Lacoste, to create a new, high fashion, and advanced boot.[SUP][7][/SUP] In the same year, she also collaborated with the brassware manufacturer Triflow Concepts[SUP][8][/SUP] to produce two new designs in her signature parametric architectural style.
In 2007, Zaha Hadid designed the Moon System Sofa for leading Italian furniture manufacturer B&B Italia.[SUP][9][/SUP]
Architectural work
Conceptual projects
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Zaha Hadid: 'Being an Arab and a woman is a double-edged sword'
Zaha Hadid on growing up in Iraq, getting the architecture bug, and the legacy of her Olympics Aquatics Centre
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- Interview by Huma Qureshi
- guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 14 November 2012 06.46 EST
Zaha Hadid: 'As a woman in architecture, you need confidence.' Photograph: Dan Chung for the Guardian
Zaha Hadid is one of the world's foremost architects. She was the first woman to win the Pritzker Prize, the most prestigious award in architecture. Hadid designed the London Aquatics Centre for the Olympic Games.
It's still very difficult for women to operate as professionals, because there are still some worlds women have no access to. No matter what you do, because you're a woman, you cannot enter. But I don't believe that stereotype remains in architecture. In the last 15 years there's been tremendous change. Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, established female architects all the time.
That doesn't mean it's easy. Sometimes the difficulties are incomprehensible. Architecture is a very tough profession.
In my case, I'm a woman and an Arab. Being an Arab woman and a modern architect certainly don't exclude each other – when I was growing up in Iraq, there were many women architects. You cannot believe the enormous resistance I've faced just for being an Arab, and a woman on top of that. It is like a double-edged sword. The moment my woman-ness is accepted, the Arab-ness seems to become a problem.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2012/nov/14/zaha-hadid-woman-arab-double-edged-sword
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Bridge Pavilion in Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain
Bergisel Ski Jump, Innsbruck, Austria
BMW Central Building, Leipzig, Germany
Vitra fire station, Weil am Rhein, Germany
Maggie's Centre, Kirkcaldy
Contemporary Arts Center, Hadid's first American work in Cincinnati, Ohio
Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid, DBE (Arabic: ??? ????? Zah? ?ad?d; born 31 October 1950) is an Iraqi-British architect and winner of the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2004, and the Stirling Prize in 2010 and 2011.
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Career
She taught at prestigious institutions around the world; she held the Kenzo Tange Chair at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, the Sullivan Chair at the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Architecture, guest professorships at the Hochschule fr bildende Knste Hamburg, the Knowlton School of Architecture, at The Ohio State University, the Masters Studio at Columbia University, New York and the Eero Saarinen Visiting Professor of Architectural Design at the Yale School of Architecture in New Haven, Connecticut. She was named an Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and an Honorary Fellow of the American Institute of Architects. She has been on the Board of Trustees of The Architecture Foundation. She is currently Professor at the University of Applied Arts Vienna in Austria. In 2002, she won the international design competition to design Singapore's one-north master plan. In 2005, her design won the competition for the new city casino of Basel, Switzerland.[SUP][citation needed][/SUP]
In 2004 Hadid became the first female and first Muslim[SUP][1][/SUP] recipient of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, architecture's equivalent of the Nobel Prize. She is a member of the editorial board of the Encyclopdia Britannica. In 2006, she was honoured with a retrospective spanning her entire work at the Guggenheim Museum in New York; that year she also received an Honorary Degree from the American University of Beirut. Her architectural design firm, Zaha Hadid Architects, employs more than 350 people, and is headquartered in a Victorian former school building in Clerkenwell, London.
In 2008, she ranked 69th on the Forbes list of "The World's 100 Most Powerful Women".[SUP][2][/SUP] On 2 January 2009, she was the guest editor of the BBC's flagship morning radio news programme, Today.[SUP][3][/SUP]
In 2010 she was named by Time magazine as influential thinker in the 2010 TIME 100 issue.[SUP][4][/SUP] In September 2010, The British magazine New Statesman listed Zaha Hadid at number 42 in their annual survey of "The World's 50 Most Influential Figures 2010".[SUP][5][/SUP]
She won the Stirling Prize two years running: in 2010, for one of her most celebrated works, the Maxxi in Rome, and in 2011 for the Evelyn Grace Academy, a Z-shapes school in Brixton.
Hadid is the designer of the Dongdaemun Design Plaza & Park in Seoul, South Korea, which is expected to be the centerpiece of the festivities for the city's designation as World Design Capital 2010. The complex is scheduled to be completed in 2011.
Hadid was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 2002 and Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2012 Birthday Honours for services to architecture.[SUP][6][/SUP]
Interior architecture and product design
She has also undertaken some high-profile interior work, including the Mind Zone and Feet zone at the Millennium Dome in London as well as creating fluid furniture installations within the Georgian surroundings of Home House private members club in Marylebone, and the Z.CAR hydrogen-powered, three-wheeled automobile. In 2009, she worked with the clothing brand Lacoste, to create a new, high fashion, and advanced boot.[SUP][7][/SUP] In the same year, she also collaborated with the brassware manufacturer Triflow Concepts[SUP][8][/SUP] to produce two new designs in her signature parametric architectural style.
In 2007, Zaha Hadid designed the Moon System Sofa for leading Italian furniture manufacturer B&B Italia.[SUP][9][/SUP]
Architectural work
Conceptual projects
- Cardiff Bay Opera House (1995), Cardiff, Wales - not realised
- Price Tower extension hybrid project (2002), Bartlesville, Oklahoma – pending
- Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University (November 10, 2012), East Lansing, MI, USA
- Vitra Fire Station (1994), Weil am Rhein, Germany
- Bergisel Ski Jump (2002), Innsbruck, Austria
- Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art (2003), Cincinnati, Ohio
- BMW Central Building (2005), Leipzig, Germany
- Ordrupgaard annexe (2005), Copenhagen, Denmark
- Phaeno Science Center (2005), Wolfsburg, Germany
- Maggie's Centres at the Victoria Hospital (2006), Kirkcaldy, Scotland
- Hungerburgbahn new stations (2007), Innsbruck, Austria
- Chanel Mobile Art Pavilion (Worldwide) Tokyo, Hong Kong, New York, London, Paris, Moscow, (2006–08)
- Bridge Pavilion (2008), Zaragoza, Spain
- Pierresvives (2002–12), Montpellier, France, project architect: Stephane Hof
- MAXXI - National Museum of the 21st Century Arts (1998–2010), Rome, Italy.[SUP][10][/SUP] Stirling Prize 2010 winner.
- Guangzhou Opera House (2010), Guangzhou, People's Republic of China.
- London Aquatics Centre (2011), 2012 Summer Olympics, London, UK.
- Riverside Museum (2007–11) development of Glasgow Transport Museum, Scotland
- Evelyn Grace Academy (2006–10) in Brixton, London, UK. Stirling Prize 2011 winner.
- Roca London Gallery (2009–11) in Chelsea Harbour, London, UK.
- Heydar Aliyev Cultural Centre (2007–12) in Baku, Azerbaijan.[SUP][11][/SUP]
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