Zaha Hadid is an Iraqi-British architect known for her innovative and organic designs. She founded her own practice, Zaha Hadid Architects, in 1980. Hadid's style pushes design boundaries through new technologies and materials. Some of her most notable works include the MAXXI Museum in Rome, the London Aquatics Centre for the 2012 Olympics, and the Bridge Pavilion for Expo 2008 in Zaragoza, Spain. Hadid has received many prestigious awards for her contributions to architecture, including the Pritzker Prize in 2004.

1. Suneeta Bodapati
Interior Designing

2. 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).

3. 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.

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

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

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. 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

10. BMW Central Building,
Germany Few other projects Heydar Aliyev Cultural
Center
Opera House, China
Phaeno Science Center
Contemporary Arts Center,
Price Tower, Okhlahoma
Ohio
Bergisel Ski Jump, Austria
Riverside museum, Glasgow
Station Nile Tower
Vitra fire station, Germany

11. Awards
• 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