ABOUT ZAHA HADID
• Born in Baghdad Iraq on October 31st 1950
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mathematics degree at the American University of Beirut
• Studied at Architectural Association school of architecture in
London
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professor at University of Applied Arts Vienna in Austria
• In 2004 she was the first female recipient to win the Pritzker
Prize
• "a living architect whose built work demonstrates a
combination of those qualities of talent, vision and commitment,
which has produced consistent and significant contributions to
humanity and the built environment through the art of
architecture"
HER INSPIRATION/STYLE
"My father took us to see the Sumerian cities. Then we went by boat, 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 the same thing in a
contemporary way.”
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She says her architecture expresses and sense of motion like “ a
controlled explosion it is concerned with composing intersecting paths,
routes and volumes in forms that are dynamic rather than static.”
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She doesn't use rule filled modernism in her architecture: walls
,ceilings, front and back and right angles
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Instead she uses multiple perspective points and fragmented geometry
to symbolize the chaotic fluidity in modern life
THE VITRA FIRE STATION
It has lots of polygons and triangles
that slash through the space around
them ,that creates movement
PHAENO SCIENCE CENTER
The supporting very large angled columns that are
intended to let it become part of the ‘urban fabric’.
And the distorted shape was chosen to imitate
movement and transformation.
It has broken compound angles with acute
interstices
STYLE IN 5 WORDS
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Organic
Natural
Innovative
Modern
Flowing
INSPIRATION FOR MASTRPEICE