Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid,DBE(Arabic: Zah add; born 31 October
1950) is an Iraqi-British architect. She received thePritzker
Architecture Prizein 2004the first woman to do soand theStirling
Prizein 2010 and 2011.Her buildings are distinctivelyneofuturistic,
characterized by the "powerful, curving forms of her elongated
structures"[1]with "multiple perspectivepoints andfragmented
geometryto evoke the chaos of modern life".[2]She is currently
professor at theUniversity of Applied Arts Viennain Austria.Zaha
Hadid was born on 31 October 1950 inBaghdad, Iraq. She grew up in
one of Baghdad's firstBauhaus-inspired buildings during an era in
which "modernismconnoted glamor and progressive thinking" in the
Middle East.[1]She received a degree in mathematics from
theAmerican University of Beirutbefore moving to study at
theArchitectural Association School of Architecturein London, where
she metRem Koolhaas,Elia Zenghelis, andBernard Tschumi. She worked
for her former professors, Koolhaas and Zenghelis, at theOffice for
Metropolitan Architecture, inRotterdam, theNetherlands; she became
a partner in 1977. Through her association with Koolhaas, she
metPeter Rice, the engineer who gave her support and encouragement
early on at a time when her work seemed difficult. In 1980, she
established her own London-based practice. During the 1980s, she
also taught at the gap Association.
WorksHeydar Aliyev Center
Library and Learning Centre University of Economics Vienna
Jockey Club Innovation Tower
Issam Fares Institute American University of Beirut One Thousand
Museum Tower New York Apartment Block
CMA CGM Headquarters
Gehry was born Frank Owen Goldberg[1]on February 28, 1929,
inToronto,Ontarioto parents, Irwin and Thelma (ne Thelma Caplan)
Goldberg.[4]His parents werePolish Jews.[5]A creative child, he was
encouraged by his grandmother, Mrs. Caplan, with whom he would
build little cities out of scraps of wood.[6]With these scraps from
her husband's hardware store, she entertained him for hours,
building imaginary houses and futuristic cities on the living room
floor.[4]His use ofcorrugated steel,chain link fencing,
unpaintedplywoodand other utilitarian or "everyday" materials was
partly inspired by spending Saturday mornings at his grandfather's
hardware store. He would spend time drawing with his father and his
mother introduced him to the world of art. "So the creative genes
were there", Gehry says. "But my mother thought I was a dreamer, I
wasn't gonna amount to anything. It was my father who thought I was
just reticent to do things. He would push me."[7]He was given
theHebrew name"Ephraim" by his grandfather but only used it at
hisbar mitzvah.[1]In 1947 Gehry moved toCalifornia, got a job
driving a delivery truck, and studied atLos Angeles City College,
eventually to graduate from theUniversity of Southern California's
School of Architecture. During that time, he became a member
ofAlpha Epsilon Pi.[8]According to Gehry: I was atruck driverin
L.A., going to City College, and I tried radio announcing, which I
wasn't very good at. I tried chemical engineering, which I wasn't
very good at and didn't like, and then I remembered. You know,
somehow I just started racking my brain about, "What do I like?"
Where was I? What made me excited? And I remembered art, that I
loved going to museums and I loved looking at paintings, loved
listening to music. Those things came from my mother, who took me
to concerts and museums. I remembered Grandma and the blocks, and
just on a hunch, I tried some architecture classes.[9]In 1952 he
married Anita Snyder, and in 1956 he changed his name to Frank O.
Gehry at her suggestion, in part because of theanti-semitismhe had
experienced as a child and as an undergraduate at USC. Gehry
graduated at the top of his class with a Bachelor of Architecture
degree from USC in 1954. Afterwards, he spent time away from the
field of architecture in numerous other jobs, including service in
theUnited States Army. In the fall of 1956, he moved his family to
Cambridge, where he studiedcity planningat theHarvard Graduate
School of Design. He left before completing the program,
disheartened and underwhelmed. Gehry's left-wing ideas about
socially responsible architecture were under-realized, and the
final straw occurred when he sat in on a discussion of one
professor's "secret project in progress" - a palace that he was
designing for right-wing Cuban Dictator Fulgencio Batista
(1901-1973).[4]In 1966 he and Snyder divorced. In 1975 he married
Panamanian Berta Isabel Aguilera, his current wife. He has two
daughters from his first marriage, and two sons from his second
marriage.Having grown up in Canada, Gehry is a huge fan ofice
hockey. He began a hockey league in his office, FOG (which stands
for Frank Owen Gehry), though he no longer plays with
them.[citation needed]In 2004, he designed the trophy for theWorld
Cup of Hockey.[citation needed]Gehry holdsdual citizenshipin Canada
and the United States. He lives in Santa Monica, California, and
continues to practice out ofLos Angeles.Walt Disney Concert Hall
Mixed-Use Tower for Downtown Santa Monica
New World Center The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
discombobulated