ZAHA HADID
Zaha Hadid, founding partner of Zaha Hadid Architects, was awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2004 and is internationally known for her work. Each of her dynamic and innovative projects builds on over thirty years of revolutionary experimentation and research in the interrelated fields of urbanism, architecture and design. Hadid's interest is in the rigorous interface between architecture, landscape, and geology as the practice integrates natural topography and human-made systems that lead to experimentation with cutting-edge technologies; The MAXXI: National Museum of 21st Century Art in Rome, BMW Central Building in Leipzig and Phaeno Science Center in Wolfsburg are all excellent demonstrations of the practice’s quest for complex, dynamic spaces. Previous seminal buildings, such as the Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art in Cincinnati and the Hoenheim-Nord Terminus in Strasbourg have been hailed as architecture that transforms our vision of the future with new spatial concepts and bold, visionary forms. Currently, the practice is working on a multitude of projects including: the Fiera di Milano master-plan and tower; the Aquatics Centre for the London 2012 Olympic Games; and the CMA CGM Head Office tower in Marseille. Hadid’s work was the subject of a critically acclaimed retrospective exhibition at New York’s Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in 2006, which showcased at London’s Design Museum in 2007.
Portrait by Luke Hayes