Zaha hadid

Suneeta Bodapati Interior Designing

Biography

Name : Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid Nationality : Iraqi-British Birth : October 31, 1950 (age 62), Baghdad Education : 1968 - 1971 Trained Maths at the American University of Beirut 1972 - 1977 Studied architecture at the Architectural Association school Practise : Joined OMA (office of metropolitan architecture) and became a partner (1977).Own practice 'ZAHA HADID office' (from 1980).

Style

Zaha Hadid's style is boldly contemporary, organic and innovative. The architect pushes design through new technology and materials and never does ordinary. She was inspired by Yohji Yamamoto and his asymmetry Her creations are more to do with topography and landscape, emulating a natural form Aswell as creating architecture the architect is a celebrated painter, designer of furniture and interior products + fittings such as bowls and chandeliers. Her favorite color is black. But with different textures.

MAXXI

The transparent roof modulates natural light. The roofing system complies with the highest standards required for museums and is composed of integrated frames with devices for filtering sunlight, artificial light and environmental control

The concrete walls define the exhibition galleries and determine the interweaving of volumes

Total site area: 29,000 m2 Exterior spaces: 19,640 m2 Interior spaces: 21,200 m2 Display space: 10.000 m2

Bridge Pavilion

The Bridge Pavilion was constructed for the Expo 2008 in Zaragoza (Spain) as one of its main landmarks. It is an innovative 270-metre-long covered bridge that imitates a gladiola over the river Ebro. The bridge a multi-level exhibition area with expected 10,000 visitors per hour to frequent the Pavilion of the world exhibition.

Bridge Pavilion

Hadid chose fibre glass reinforced concrete from Austria to envelope the bridge. She covered the outer skin of the building with 29,000 triangles of fibre C in different shades of grey

The building was purchased by the local savings bank Ibercaja to use it as a site for expositions.

London Aquatics Centre The London Aquatics Centre is an indoor facility with two 50-metre (160-foot) swimming pools and a 25-metre (82-foot) diving pool in Olympic Park at Stratford, London, it was one of the main venues of the 2012 Summer Olympics and the 2012 Summer Paralympics. After significant modification the centre is due to open to the public in 2014.

Other works

In 2007, Zaha Hadid designed the Moon System Sofa for leading Italian furniture manufacturer B&B Italia.

She has also undertaken some interior work in the Mind Zone and Feet zone at the Millennium Dome in London

Few other projects BMW Central Building, Germany

Bergisel Ski Jump, Austria

Contemporary Arts Center, Ohio

Vitra fire station, Germany

Opera House, China

Phaeno Science Center

Price Tower, Okhlahoma

Heydar Aliyev Cultural Center

Riverside museum, Glasgow

Station Nile Tower

• Forbes ranked Hadid the 69th most powerful women in the world in 2008

• New Statesman ranked her the 42nd most influential figure on the planet in 2010.

• 2001 Equerre d'argent Prize, special mention

• 2003 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture

• 2004 Pritzker Prize

• 2005 Designer of the Year Award for Design Miami

• 2005 RIBA European Award for BMW Central Building

• 2006 RIBA European Award for Phaeno Science Center

• 2007 Thomas Jefferson Medal in Architecture

• 2008 RIBA European Award for Nordpark Cable Railway

• 2009 Praemium Imperiale

• 2010 RIBA European Award for MAXXI

• 2010 Stirling Prize for MAXXI – National Museum of the 21st Century Arts

• 2011 Stirling Prize for Evelyn Grace Academy, London

Awards