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Zaha Hadid
Biography
Zaha Hadid, founder of Zaha Hadid Architects, was awarded the Pritzker
Architecture Prize (considered the Nobel Prize of architecture) in 2004 and is
internationally known for her built, theoretical and academic work. Each of her
projects builds on her 40 years of exploration and research in the interrelated
fields of urbanism, architecture and design.
Born in Baghdad, Iraq in 1950, Hadid studied mathematics at the American
University of Beirut before moving to London in 1972 to attend the Architectural
Association School where she was awarded the Diploma Prize in 1977. Hadid
founded Zaha Hadid Architects in 1979 and completed her first building, the Vitra
Fire Station, Germany in 1993.
Zaha Hadid taught at the Architectural Association until 1987 and held numerous
chairs and guest professorships at universities around the world including
Columbia, Harvard, Yale and the University of Applied Arts in Vienna.
The MAXXI: Italian National Museum of 21st Century Arts in Rome, the London
Aquatics Centre for the 2012 Olympic Games and the Heydar Aliyev Centre in
Baku are among Hadid's acclaimed works that demonstrate her quest for
enlightening, fluid space. Earlier buildings such as the Guangzhou Opera House
and Contemporary Arts Centre in Cincinnati have also been hailed as architecture
that transforms our ideas of the future with visionary spatial concepts defined by
innovations in design, materials and construction processes.
Hadid's legacy endures within the DNA of the architecture practice she created.
Zaha Hadid Architects are currently building a wide diversity of projects
worldwide including the new Beijing Airport Terminal Building in Daxing, China,
the Sleuk Rith Institute in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, the Generali headquarters
tower in Milan and 1000 Museum residential tower in Miami. The practice's
portfolio also includes cultural, corporate, academic, sporting and infrastructure
projects across Asia, the Middle East, Europe and the Americas, in addition to
national institutions such as the new Central Bank of Iraq and the Grand Theatre
de Rabat in Morocco.
Zaha Hadid's work was the subject of critically -acclaimed exhibitions at New
York's Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in 2006, London's Design Museum in
2007, the Palazzo della Ragione, Padua, Italy in 2009, the Philadelphia Museum
of Art in 2011 and the State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia in
2015, and the Serpentine Gallery, London in 2017.
Hadid's most recently completed projects include the Port House in Antwerp and
Mathematics Gallery at London's Science Museum (2016), Messner Mountain
Museum Corones in Italy (2015), Oxford University's Middle East Centre (2015),
Sky SOHO in Shanghai (2014), Innovation Tower at Hong Kong Polytechnic
University (2014), Dongdaemun Design Plaza in Seoul (2014), Heydar Aliyev
Centre in Baku (2013), Serpentine Sackler Gallery in London (2013), Library &
Learning Centre in Vienna (2013), Eli & Edythe Broad Art Museum in Michigan
(2012), Galaxy SOHO in Beijing (2012), Pierresvives Library and Archive in
Montpellier (2012), CMA CGM Head Office Tower in Marseille (2011), London
Aquatics Centre (2011), Riverside Museum in Glasgow (2011), Guangzhou Opera
House (2010), Sheikh Zayed Bridge in Abu Dhabi (2010) and MAXXI Museum in
Rome (2010).
Zaha Hadid's outstanding contribution to the architectural profession has been
acknowledged by the world's most respected institutions including the Forbes
List of the 'World's Most Powerful Women' and the Japan Art Association
presenting her with the 'Praemium Imperiale'. In 2010 and 2011, her designs
were awarded the Stirling Prize, one of architecture's highest accolades, by the
Royal Institute of British Architects. Other awards include UNESCO naming Hadid
as an 'Artist for Peace', the Republic of France honouring Hadid with the
'Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres' and TIME magazine included
her in their list of the '100 Most Influential People in the World' — listing Hadid as
the World's Top Thinker. In 2012, Zaha Hadid was made a Dame Commander of
the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II, and in February 2016, she
received the Royal Gold Medal.
Zaha Hadid passed away on March 31s` 2016 in Miami.
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Zaha Hadid
Zaha Hadid's pioneering vision redefined architecture for the 21st century and captured imaginations
across the globe. Her architecture sees form and space pulled into breath -taking fluid spatial
progressions. Enticingly contextual, Hadid's buildings transform notions of what can be achieved in
concrete, steel and glass; combining her unwavering optimism for the future and belief in the power
of invention with concepts of connectivity and fluidity.
The evolution of Hadid's buildings —from the complex, interlocking forms of the Vitra Fire Station and
Cincinnati's Contemporary Art Center to the awe-inspiring urban spaces of the MAXXI Museum in
Rome, Guangzhou Opera House and Oxford University's Middle East Centre —demonstrates her
consistent desire to question and innovate. Form and space are woven within structure. These are
buildings which emerge from their context and also capable of knitting disparate programs together;
always surprising and always making connections.
Theory is inscribed implicitly in her designs, and a careful reading of her works yields an understanding
that the quest for beauty alone was not her modus operandi. The work is beautiful, even exquisitely
beautiful, and beauty may account for its strong and seductive urban presence, for its hold on the eye.
But beauty does not account for its importance or virtuosity.
Many architects are called on to create projects new that stand as symbols of social progress and
culture. But few delivered as regularly, as unexpectedly and as spectacularly as Zaha Hadid; and her
successes were so consistent that her methodology and theory must be acknowledged and credited.
The IQ of each design cannot simply be attributed to strokes of inspiration delivered late at night by
divine afflatus. Hadid knew what she was doing. There is detailed method to her work, and principle.
She led one of the most consistently inventive offices anywhere —and did so for 40 years.
Her work is not simply formalist. Its beauty and virtuosity are married to meaning. This architecture
breaks social ground with its democratic attitude, offering generous expanses of articulated public
space inside and out; accessible and civic, while inviting exploration within. Hadid's projects foster a
sense of personal ownership. With multiple ground planes, sectional interconnectivity and open
forms, her architecture stands as analogues for openness in cultural and political systems.
And then there is the raw physics of Hadid's enlightened spaces. Their success is not a result of size
and bombast, but in their power to inspire. Their spectacle is not hollow but activist, engaging the
senses and inciting the imagination. These are buildings with great subjective appeal.
Ever since The Peak, Hadid's 1983 breakout project for a sports club on the mountain above Hong
Kong, she was interested in the reciprocal relationship of building and site. The floors of the club
exploded from the hillside like a spray of crystal quartz, architecturalizing the surrounding ground. In
this and later projects, Hadid has consistently brought the outside into her buildings, and the inside
out, to cultivate and sustain public space on either side of the front door.
Hadid cultivated public space in her designs to democratize the buildings. When she was a young girl
growing up in Iraq during its brief democratic period, there was an unbroken belief in progress and a
great sense of optimism. It was an incredible moment of social reform. Iraq was a new republic; the
ideas of change, liberation and freedom of this era were critical to her development and are woven
within each of Hadid's designs. She often extended the street life into the interiors. The 'urban carpet'
of Cincinnati's Contemporary Arts Center guides visitors outside on Walnut Street seamlessly into the
center and through the sequence of galleries stacked above.
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For Le Corbusier, the plan was the generator, but for Hadid, three -dimensions, stereometric rather
than planimetric, was the generator of designs conceived simultaneously as plan, section, and
elevation. It took Hadid 20 years to convince architects to work three -dimensionally, and now the
industry as a whole works in 3D on the computer.
In each of Hadid's projects, there is a sense of ceremony - even without ceremonies. Influenced by the
Russian avant-garde, who conceived public spaces as "urban condensers" catalyzing a public realm of
activity, Hadid always cultivated the civics of public space. The grandeur of Hadid's processional
promenades and communal spaces rival even the operatic staircases of Paris and Milan, their majesty
celebrates public gathering, civic forum and movement.
Space is a slippery medium and difficult to conceive and design when unboxed. Hadid skilfully layered
space three dimensionally. Her spaces are truly omnidirectional, flowing laterally and vertically in
vistas that bend with the curves.
Liquid spaces, with a generative assist from computer programs, are the new spaces for the 21s`
century, and Hadid introduced us all to such space in very convincing argument. Her work is immersive
and experiential. The body empathizes with the fluid architectural forms of Hadid's work.
Hadid's optically rich interiors are built essays in spatial composition. Multiple vanishing points engage
perception so that the space becomes personal, owned by the visitor on a path of physical
exploration. Mathematicians acknowledge the purity of these fluid geometries, but off the page,
outside the textbook, these curves engage the body and capture the eye. And for all their mystification
of forms, Hadid's buildings are clearly organized and intuitive to navigate.
To be wonderful, a wonderland cannot look strained. Hadid's genius is that her architecture and
engineering maintain visual levity throughout, with no lapse in tone. Though often heroic as structure,
Hadid's designs themselves do not privilege structure as a subject or a leading issue, enabling her to
shift the buildings from a static to a visually dynamic reading.
As early as the 1983 Peak Club in Hong Kong, Hadid's vision had anticipated the computer, so when it
arrived in her office full force in 1990, her vision dovetailed with the new possibilities. Over the last
three decades, the computer was completely absorbed in her practice with a noticeable impact, the
sharp angularity of her early work giving way to smooth shapes.
Inspired by the early -twentieth-century paintings of Malevich, Hadid always painted her structures
floating weightlessly against the infinity of white or black backgrounds, without apparent substance:
air had always been her medium. With the paradigm shift to the fluid forms encouraged by the
computer, however, form and space coalesce.
A masterpiece would seem to be a masterpiece, an absolute without degrees of excellence. But Hadid
was unusual, producing architectural masterpieces with alarming regularity. Just when we thought the
designs couldn't get more masterful than the Contemporary Art Center in Cincinnati, BMW Central
Building in Leipzig, MAXXI Museum in Rome, Guangzhou Opera House in China, the Broad Art Museum
at Michigan State University or London 2012 Olympic Aquatics Centre, Hadid produced the Heydar
Aliyev Cultural Center in Baku —lyrical, unexpected, buoyant. Like most of Hadid's buildings, the
Center is both delicate and robust, refined and powerful.
Hadid never gave herself the luxury of thinking she'd 'made it' and succumb to simply replicating ideas
and concepts to meet growing commissions. She saw endless possibilities in rapidly advancing design,
material and construction technologies. Her inventiveness consistently surpasses itself in a repertoire
of projects that becomes more innovative spatially and formally, more inventive structurally, more
polished materially, more ambitious technologically —and more resolved and daring —with each new
design.
As they open, each of Hadid's buildings takes its place in architectural history as a signal event, for its
virtuosic construction, its architectural ideology, and its sheer magnetic presence. But these buildings,
despite their fanatic scope and sweep, also posit a notable, historical reference. Hadid was influenced
early on by the Russian avant-garde, especially the Suprematists, whose radical new ideas to re-
engage and revitalize society she so championed. Hadid set out to build their revolution.
If a culture can be extrapolated from the architectural posture represented by Hadid's buildings, it is
freer and more spirited, and applied with a light touch as well as principled discipline. Her projects are
an embodiment of an enlightened philosophical framework, their open forms promise to engage local
cultures by an act of attraction rather than imposition.
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Her clients commissioned buildings, and Hadid met the programs. But she also read between the lines
and exceeded each brief by consistently delivering an unwavering optimism for the future and the
shared aspirations of an era.
Each of Hadid's designs display the innovative research and investigation that instigates and defines
the work. As she stated in her 2011 conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist, co -director of the Serpentine
Galleries, "I know from my experience that without research and experimentation not much can be
discovered. With experimentation, you think you're going to find out one thing, but you actually
discover something else. That's what I think is really exciting. You discover so much more than you
bargain for. I think there should be no end to experimentation."
Refusing to be confined by limitations or boundaries, Zaha Hadid did not reserve her ideology for the
drawing board or lecture hall. She lived them.
Hadid deeply believed in the strongest international collaboration and was very proud to have a team
of 50 different nationalities in her London office, with 43% of the architects at her London firm being
Black, Asian and other ethnicities. While women make up less than 25% of practicing architects, 40%
of architects at Hadid's firm are women —and she consistently encouraged them to take leadership
roles. Zaha fostered a collective research culture throughout every aspect of her work that enables
many talents and disciplines to build on each other's discoveries. Zaha didn't just break glass ceilings
and pull down barriers; she shattered them —and invited everyone of any race, gender, creed or
orientation to join her on the journey.
Committed to the well-being of everyone regardless of geography or status, each year Hadid donated
designs to raise funds for charitable causes and cultural institutions. In 2015 alone Hadid's donations
contributed many hundreds of thousands of dollars to benefit UNICEF, the John Soane Museum in
London, National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC), Cancer Research UK,
Innocence in Danger, Article 25 disaster relief, Studio -in -a -School and the 'KIDS' program working with
disabled children.
This commitment extended beyond product designs into her architecture. Working pro-bono, Hadid
delivered remarkable projects including Maggie's Centre Fife, a facility helping those in Scotland living
with cancer. And most recently, Hadid worked with non-profit organizations and educational
foundations to design and build school buildings in deprived.
Throughout her career, Hadid refined the concepts she developed for renowned institutions and
luxury brands, pushing these solutions into the mainstream for the wider benefit. Her ideas instigated
for Chanel in Hong Kong, New York and Paris, together with innovative concepts for cultural projects in
London and Chicago, will now benefit many thousands of disadvantaged school children. This is how
Zaha worked. This is why Zaha worked.
For millions of architects and designers around the world who have expressed their heartfelt
condolence —indeed, many millions more outside the profession who simply admired her invention,
passion and integrity —the loss of Zaha Hadid was personal.
Zaha broke one impenetrable glass ceiling after another. She worked hard and, in her own words, 'just
did her own thing' —and succeeded. To many women —and men —in architecture, that meant a lot.
Young women and men in architecture around the world are demanding their profession become
more diverse and democratic. Through determination and sheer hard work, Zaha showed us that
architecture can be inclusive. She inspired a whole new generation to engage with their environment,
to never stop questioning and never —ever —stop imagining.
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Exhibitions & Publications
Introduction
Zaha Hadid was an architect who consistently pushed the boundaries of architecture and urban
design. Her work experimented with new spatial concepts intensifying existing urban landscapes in
the pursuit of a visionary aesthetic that encompasses all fields of design, ranging from urban scale
through to products, interiors and furniture. Best known for her seminal built works, her central
concerns involve a simultaneous engagement in practice, teaching and research.
Education & Teaching
Hadid studied architecture at the Architectural Association from 1972 and was awarded the Diploma
Prize in 1977. She then became a partner of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, taught at the
AA with OMA collaborators Rem Koolhaas and Elia Zenghelis, and later led her own studio at the AA
until 1987. Since then, in 1986, she has been a Design Critic in Architecture and in 1994 held the
Kenzo Tange Chair, both at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University; the Sullivan Chair at
the University of Illinois, School of Architecture, Chicago; guest professorships at the Hochschule fur
Bildende Kunste in Hamburg; the Knowlton School of Architecture, Ohio and the Masters Studio at
Columbia University, New York. In addition, she was made Honorary Member of the American
Academy of Arts and Letters, Fellow of the American Institute of Architecture, Commander of the
British Empire, 2002 and Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2012. She was
Professor at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, Austria, as well as at the Harvard Graduate
School of Design and was the Eero Saarinen Visiting Professor of Architectural Design at Yale
University, New Haven, Connecticut.
Exhibition Catalogues & Monograph Publications
Zaha Hadid: Planetary Architecture Two (AA Publications, UK, 1983)
'Zaha M. Hadid', GA Architect, No.5 (A.D.A. Edita, Japan, 1986)
'Zaha Hadid', AA Files No. 5 (AA Publications, UK, 1986)
'Zaha Hadid 1983-1991', El Croquis, No.52 (Cruz, Spain, 1991)
'Zaha M. Hadid', GA Document Extra No.3 (A.D.A. Edita, Japan, 1995)
'Zaha Hadid 1992-1995' El Croquis, No. 73 (Phillip Galgiani, Spain, 1995)
'Zaha Hadid 1996- 2001', El Croquis, No.103 (El Croquis, Spain, 2001)
Zaha Hadid: The Complete Buildings and Projects (Thames & Hudson, UK, 1998)
Zaha Hadid: LF One — New Building at Weil am Rhein (Birkhauser, Switzerland, 1999)
Architecture of Zaha Hadid in Photographs, Binet, H. (Lars Muller Publishers, Switzerland, 2000)
Zaha Hadid, Opere e Progetti (U. Allemandi, Italy, 2002)
Zaha Hadid Architektur, MAK exhibition catalogue (Hatje Cantz Verlag, Germany, 2003)
'Zaha Hadid', GA Document Nos. 65 and 66 (Ada Edita, Japan, 2000)
Zaha Hadid: Space for Art (Lars Muller Publishers, Switzerland, 2004)
'Zaha Hadid 1983- 2004' El Croquis (El Croquis, Spain, 2004)
Digital Hadid (Birkhauser, UK, 2004)
Zaha Hadid: Car Park and Terminus Strasbourg (Lars Muller Publishers, Switzerland, 2004)
Zaha Hadid Complete Works (Thames and Hudson, UK, 2004)
BMW Central Building (Princeton Architectural Press, USA, 2006);
Zaha Hadid, Guggenheim Museum exhibition catalogue (Guggenheim Museum, USA, 2006)
'Zaha Hadid', GA Document, Special Issue, No. 99 (A.D.A. Edita, Japan, 2007)
Zaha Hadid (Motta Architettura, Italy, 2007)
Total Fluidity, Catalogue for Seoul Design Olympiad Exhibition (NY Projects, Korea, 2008)
Zaha Hadid Complete Works (Thames and Hudson, UK, 2009)
Hadid: Complete Works 1979-2009 (Taschen, Germany, 2009)
MAXXI: Zaha Hadid Architects: Museum of XXI Century Arts (Skira Rizzoli, USA, 2010)
'Zaha Hadid', GA Document, Special Issue, No. 115 (A.D.A. Edita, Japan, 2010)
'Being Zaha Hadid', ABITARE, Special Issue (RCS Media Group, Italy, 2011)
Hadid (Taschen, Germany, 2012)
'Zaha Hadid', GA Exhibition Catalogue (A.D.A. Edita, Japan, 2014)
Zaha Hadid at the Hermitage, Hermitage Museum exhibition catalogue (Hermitage Museum Editorial
and Publishing Council, Russia, 2015)
Zaha Hadid, Geometrie variabili e nuove morfologie spaziali (RCS Media Group, Italy, 2016);
Zaha Hadid (Taschen, Germany, 2016)
Zaha Hadid, Fondazione Berengo exhibition catalogue (Bruno, Italy, 2016)
Zaha Hadid: Early Paintings and Drawings, Serpentine exhibition catalogue (Koenig Books, UK, 2016)
Exhibitions
Alongside the exhibitions, Hadid's work forms part of the permanent collections of various institutions
such as MoMA New York, MoMA San Francisco and the Deutsches Architektur Museum, Frankfurt,
Germany.
'The Sparkling Metropolis', Guggenheim Museum, New York (1978)
'Planetary Architecture Two', Architectural Association, London (1983)
GA Gallery, Tokyo (1985)
'Deconstructivist Architecture', MoMA, New York (1988)
Graduate School of Design, Harvard University (1995)
Grand Central Station, New York (1995)
San Francisco MoMA, California (1997/98)
The Venice Architecture Biennale (2000)
'Zaha Hadid Lounge', Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg (2001)
The Venice Architecture Biennale (2002)
'Zaha Hadid', MAXXI, Rome (2002)
'Zaha Hadid Laboratory', Yale University (2002)
The National Building Museum, Washington (2002)
'Zaha Hadid Architecture', MAK Exhibition Hall, Vienna (2003)
The Venice Architecture Biennale (2004)
'Zaha Hadid's paintings', Somerset House, London (2004)
'Twenty Five Years of Art', Deutsche Bank Collection, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin (2005)
'Silver Paintings', ROVE Gallery, London (2005)
'Zaha Hadid', Guggenheim, New York (2006)
'Twenty Five Years of Art', Deutsche Bank Collection, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore (2006)
Urban Voids, Lisbon Architecture Triennale, Lisbon (2007)
'Zaha Hadid', Sofia European Architecture Week, Sofia (2007)
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Zaha Hadid Arci �ii eci s
'Airs de Paris', Pompidou Centre, Paris (2007)
'Global Cities', Tate Modern, London (2007)
'Zaha Hadid: Design & Architecture', Design Museum, London (2007)
'Designer of the Year, Maison & Objet, Paris (2008)
'Silver Paintings', Art Cologne, Germany (2008)
The Venice 11th International Architecture Exhibition (2008)
'Total Fluidity', Seoul Design Olympiad, Seoul (2008)
'Zaha Hadid', Barbara Cappochin International Biennial Architecture, Padua, Italy (2009)
'Zaha Hadid- Fluidity & Design' Bin Matar House, Muharraq, Bahrain (2010)
'Zaha Hadid and Suprematism', Galerie Gmurzynska, Zurich, Switzerland (2010)
'Zaha Hadid: Form in Motion', Philadelphia Museum of Art (2011)
'Zaha Hadid: Une Architecture', Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris (2011)
'Parametric Tower Research', AIT ArchitekturSalon, Cologne (2012)
'Zaha Hadid', Buchmann Galerie, Berlin, Germany (2012)
'Arum Installation and Exhibition', Venice Architecture Biennale (2012)
'Multiplicities Exhibition', Salone del Mobile, Milan (2013)
'Zaha Hadid; World Architecture', Danish Architecture Centre, Copenhagen (2013)
'Zaha Hadid_360', Dongdaemun Design Plaza, Seoul, Korea (2014)
'Zaha Hadid', Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (2014)
'Zaha Hadid', The State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Russia (2015)
IFF Hong Kong, China (2015)
'Zaha Hadid', Leila Heller Gallery, Dubai, UAE (2016)
'Zaha Hadid', Palazzo Franchetti, Venice, Italy (2016)
'Zaha Hadid', Design Miami, Basel, Switzerland (2016)
'Zaha Hadid: Early Paintings and Drawings', Serpentine Galleries, London (2016)
Exhibition Design
'The Great Utopia', Guggenheim Museum, New York (1992)
'WishMachine', Vienna Kunsthalle, Austria (1996)
'Addressing the Century', Hayward Gallery, London (1998)
'Paper Art', Leopold -Hoesch Museum, Duren (1996)
Jewellery Exhibition, Zurich (2000)
'Borderline Exhibition', Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels (2000)
'Salieri Suille Tracce di Mozart and the Palazzo Reale', Da Ponte Institute, Milan (2005)
'25 Years of Deutsche Bank Art', Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin (2005)
'Elastika', Design 05, Art Basel, Miami (2005)
'Tokyo Blossoms', Haro Museum Installation, Tokyo (2006)
The Wallpaper Magazine 10th Anniversary Exhibition, Milan (2006)
Ideal House, IMM Cologne Fair (2007)
Hauser & Wirth Gallery, London (2008)
Sonnabend Gallery and Kenny Schachter/ROVE, New York (2008)
'Zaha Hadid', Barbara Cappochin International Biennial Architecture, Padua, Italy (2009)
'Egyptian Pavilion', Shanghai Expo, Shanghai (2010)
'Zaha Hadid- Fluidity & Design', Bahrain (2010)
'Zaha Hadid and Suprematism', Zurich (2010)
'Zaha Hadid: Une Architecture', France (2011)
'Form in Motion', Philadelphia, USA (2011)
Zaha Hadid Design Gallery with Fudge Hair, UK (2012)
'Women, Fashion, Power', Design Museum, London, UK (2014)
'Kurt Schwitters: Meri , Gmurzynska Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland (2016)
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2000 Honourable Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters (Zaha Hadid)
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2000 RIBA Awards (Mind Zone, Millennium Dome, London)
2001 Equerre d'Argent special mention (Terminus Hoenheim North)
2002 AIA UK Chapter Award (Terminus Hoenheim North)
2002 AIA UK Chapter Honourable Mention (One -north Master Plan)
2002 Red Dot Award (Terminus Hoenheim North)
2002 Austrian State Architecture Prize (Bergisel Ski -Jump, Innsbruck)
2002 Tyrolean Architecture Award (Bergisel Ski -Jump, Innsbruck)
2002 Commander of the British Empire, CBE (Zaha Hadid)
2003 EU Mies van der Rohe Award (Terminus Hoenheim North)
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2004
2004 Blueprint Award Architect of the Year (Zaha Hadid)
2004 RIBA International Award (Rosenthal Centre for Contemporary Art)
2004 Laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize (Zaha Hadid)
2004 London Architect of the year, London Architectural Biennale (Zaha Hadid)
2005
2005 Honorary Fellow of Columbia University (Zaha Hadid)
2005 Member of the Royal Academy of Arts (Zaha Hadid)
2005 RIBA Medal, European Commercial Building of the Year (BMW Central Building)
2005 Deutsche Architektur Prize, Building of the Year (BMW Central Building)
2005 Finalist for the RIBA Stirling Prize (BMW Central Building)
2005 Gold Medal for Design, International Olympic Committee (Bergisel Ski Jump)
2005 Austrian Decoration of Science & Art, Commissions of Science & Art (Zaha Hadid)
2005 Designer of the Year, Design 05 Art Basel Miami (Zaha Hadid)
2006
2006 AIA UK Chapter Award (Phaeno Science Center)
2006 Honorary Doctorate, Yale University, USA (Zaha Hadid)
2006 RIBA Medal, European Cultural Building of the Year (Phaeno Science Center)
2006 Honorary Doctorate, American University of Beirut (Zaha Hadid)
2006 Finalist for the RIBA Stirling Prize (Phaeno Science Center)
2006 RIBA Jencks Award (Zaha Hadid)
2006 Academician, International Academy of Architecture (Zaha Hadid)
2006 Leading European Architects Forum (LEAF) Award (Phaeno Science Center)
2007
2007 AIA UK Chapter Award for Excellence (Maggie's Centre, Fife)
2007 Finalist EU Mies van der Rohe Award for European Architecture (Phaeno Science Center)
2007 Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Architecture, USA (Zaha Hadid)
2007 Scottish Design Awards, Best Public Building Award (Maggie's Centre, Fife)
2007 London Design Medal, Outstanding Contribution for Design (Zaha Hadid)
2007 Travel & Leisure Award, USA (Nordpark Cable Railway)
2008
2008 Maison & Objet Designer of the Year (Zaha Hadid)
2008 Dedalo Minosse International Prize for Commissioning a Building (BMW Central Building)
2008 Honorary Degree from the Pratt Institute, New York City (Zaha Hadid)
2008 Spirit of Achievement Award (Zaha Hadid)
2008 Cityscape Architectural Award, Dubai (Signature Towers)
2008 Chicago Athenaeum Award, Chicago (Maggie's Centre, Fife)
2008 RIBA European Award, UK (Nordpark Cable Railway)
2008 Architektur and Tirol, Austria (Nordpark Cable Railway)
2008 World Architecture Festival Transport Category, Barcelona (Nordpark Cable Railway)
2008 RIBA Stirling Prize Nomination (Nordpark Cable Railway)
2009
2009 Conde' Nast Innovation & Design Award, London (Zaragoza Bridge Pavilion)
2009 Architectural Digest Spain Editor's Award, Madrid (Zaha Hadid)
2009 Praemium Imperiale, The Japanese Art Association, Tokyo (Zaha Hadid)
2009 DDI Awards (Neil Barrett Flagship Store, Tokyo)
2009 The Sunday Times Fast -track 100 (Zaha Hadid Architects)
2009 The Times '50 People of the Decade' (Zaha Hadid)
2010
2010 Time Magazine's "The World's 100 Most Influential People" (Zaha Hadid)
2010 UNESCO Artist for Peace, Paris (Zaha Hadid)
2010 RIBA Stirling Prize (MAXXI, National Museum of XXI Century Arts)
2010 Structural Steel Design Awards (Glasgow Riverside Museum of Transport)
2010 Structural Steel Design Awards (London Aquatics Centre)
2010 Best Small Project Award, SEAOI (Burnham Pavilion, Chicago)
2010 The Sunday Times '100 Top International Companies' (Zaha Hadid Architects)
2010 Innovation & Design Awards, Conde Nast (MAXXI Museum)
2010 The New Statesman '50 People Who Matter 2010' (Zaha Hadid)
2010 Woman of the Year Outstanding Achievement Award (Zaha Hadid)
2010 Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Zaha Hadid)
2010 WAF World Building of the Year (MAXXI, National Museum of XXI Century Arts)
2010 Visionary of the Year, Harper's Bazaar (Zaha Hadid)
2010 Conde Nast Innovation & Design Award (MAXXI, National Museum of XXI Century Arts)
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2011
2011 American Institute of Architects UK Chapter Award (Guangzhou Opera House)
2011 RIBA European Award (Evelyn Grace Academy)
2011 RIBA Stirling Prize (Evelyn Grace Academy)
2011 RIBA Award (Guangzhou Opera House)
2011 Philadelphia Museum of Art, Collab Design Excellence Award (Zaha Hadid)
2011 Honourary Doctorate from the University of the Arts, London (Zaha Hadid)
2011 Foreign Policy Magazine "Top 100 Global Thinkers of 2011" (Zaha Hadid)
2011 Arabian Business Magazine 'The World's 50 Most Powerful Arabs' (Zaha Hadid)
2011 Newsweek Magazine '150 Women Who Shake The World' (Zaha Hadid)
2011 Huffington Post Game Changer (Zaha Hadid)
2011 First Prize, Outstanding Engineering Design Excellence in China (Guangzhou Opera House)
2012
2012 Int. Road Federation, Global Achievement Award for Design (Sheikh Zayed Bridge)
2012 Travel & Leisure Award, Berlin (Sheikh Zayed Bridge)
2012 Jane Drew Prize (Zaha Hadid)
2012 The Sunday Times 'Makers & Shakers 1962-2012' (Zaha Hadid)
2012 European Museum Academy Micheletti Award (Riverside Museum)
2012 The Design Week Awards (Roca London Gallery)
2012 Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire, DBE (Zaha Hadid)
2012 Architectural Record Magazine China Award, Best Public Project (Guangzhou Opera House)
2012 Women of the Year, Glamour Magazine (Zaha Hadid)
2012 Honorary President, FT/Citi Urban Ideas in Action programme judging committee (Zaha Hadid)
2012 Best Retail Space, FX International Interior Design Awards (Roca London Gallery)
2012 Best of Year Awards, Interior Design 'Beauty/Spa/Fitness' (London Aquatics Centre)
2013
2013 DLD 'The Aenne Burda Award for Creative Leadership' (Zaha Hadid)
2013 Veuve Clicquot 'Businesswoman of the Year' (Zaha Hadid)
2013 European Museum of the Year (Riverside Museum)
2013 BBC Women's Hour 'Power 100' (Zaha Hadid)
2013 Arabian Business '100 Most Powerful Arab Women 2013' (Zaha Hadid ranked number 4)
2013 Best European Plant (BMW Leipzig)
2013 Issam M. Fares Award for Excellence (Zaha Hadid)
2014
2014 Architizer A+ Award (Heydar Aliyev Center)
2014 Arison Award by National Young Arts Foundation (Zaha Hadid)
2014 Innovative Design in Engineering & Architecture with Structural Steel (Broad Art Museum)
2014 Structural Excellence Awards HK, Commendation of Merit (Jockey Club Innovation Tower)
2014 McKim Medal American Academy in Rome (Zaha Hadid)
2014 RIBA National Award (London Aquatics Centre)
2014 RIBA Stirling Prize nomination (London Aquatics Centre)
2014 RIBA EU Award (Library & Learning Centre, Vienna)
2014 CTBUH Best Tall Buildings Awards Finalist (JCIT & Wangjing Soho)
2014 Design Museum: Design of the Year Award (Heyder Aliyev Center)
2014 New London Award (London Aquatics Centre)
2014 Restaurant & Bar Designs Award (The Magazine Restaurant)
2014 British Construction Industry Award (London Aquatics Centre)
2014 Honorary Degree of Doctor of Literature of the University of London (Zaha Hadid)
2014 ACADIA Lifetime Achievement Award (Zaha Hadid)
2014 Elle Decoration British Design Award (Serpentine Sackler Gallery)
2014 EU Mies van der Rohe Award Nomination (London Aquatics Centre)
2014 Best Public Space Award CIDA, China (Galaxy SOHO, Beijing)
2014 Architectural Society of China CASC Silver Award (Galaxy SOHO, Beijing)
2014 Honorary Key to the City of Miami by Mayor Tomas Regalado (Zaha Hadid)
2015
2015 London Building Excellence Award (Serpentine Sackler Gallery)
2015 AI 120 International Practice of the Year (Zaha Hadid Architects)
2015 Gold Medal of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria (Zaha Hadid)
2015 IOC/IAKS Award Silver Medal, Exemplary Sports & Leisure Facilities (London Aquatics Centre)
2015 The WIRED 100 (59/100) (Zaha Hadid)
2015 Louise Blouin Foundation Award (Zaha Hadid)
2015 Oxford Preservation Trust Award (Investcorp Building, University of Oxford)
2015 Joint -winner of the Wood Awards: Bespoke Furniture category (Ves-el)
2015 LUX Award (Investcorp Building)
2015 FIABCI Singapore Property Award, Residential Category (d'Leedon)
2015 Artnet 100 Most Influential People in the Art World (Zaha Hadid)
2015 Huffington Post/World Post Global Thought Leaders (Zaha Hadid)
2015 The Sunday Times Profit Track 100 (Zaha Hadid Architects)
2015 The Sunday Times International Track 200 (Zaha Hadid Architects)
2015 UK Creative Arts' Leading Light Architecture Lifetime Achievement Award (Zaha Hadid)
2016
2016 RIBA Gold Medal (Zaha Hadid)
2016 AIA UK Design Excellence Award (Messner Mountain Museum Corones)
2016 RIBA South Award (Investcorp Building, University of Oxford)
2016 RIBA International Prize Shortlist (Heydar Aliyev Center)
2016 IAI Design Award, Asia Pacific Designers' Federation (Dongdaemun Design Plaza)
2016 IAI Lifetime Achievement Award, Asia Pacific Designers' Federation (Zaha Hadid)
2016 A1100 Contribution to the Profession (Zaha Hadid)
2016 A1100 Fastest Growing Practice of the Year (Zaha Hadid Architects)
2016 Prince Philip Designers Prize, Special Commendation for Design Inspiration (Zaha Hadid)
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2016 High-rise Residential World Gold Winner, FIABCI World Prix D'Excellence Awards (d'Leedon)
2016 RIBA National Award (Investcorp Building, University of Oxford)
2016 Honorary Degree: Doctor of Science, The City University, London (Zaha Hadid)
2016 The Chicago Athenaeum International Architecture Awards (d'Leedon)
2016 China Best Tall Building Excellence Award, CITAB — CTBUH Awards (Wangjing SOHO)
2016 World Architecture Awards (Messner Mountain Museum)
2016 World Architecture Awards (Investcorp Building)
2016 Aga Khan Award for Architecture (Issam Fares Institute)
2016 Blueprint Award, best non-public project, commercial (Dominion Building)
2016 Blueprint Award, best public -use project, privately -funded (Messner Mountain Museum)
2016 Blueprint Award for Architecture (Zaha Hadid)
2016 RIBA Award for International Excellence (Jockey Club Innovation Tower)
2016 Simon Taylor Award for Lifetime Achievement (Zaha Hadid)
2016 WAF World's Best Higher Education & Research Building (Investcorp Building)
2017
2017 Nomination EU Prize for Contemporary Architecture, Mies van der Rohe Award (Investcorp)