#TBT honoring Dame Zaha Hadid (1950-2016)
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Zaha Hadid was an Iraqi-born British architect and the first woman to be award the Pritzker Architecture Prize. After earning a bachelor’s degree in mathematics at the American University in Beirut, Lebanon, Zaha studied at the Architectural Association in London, where she later established her own firm.
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With her radical deconstructivist designs, Zaha Hadid earned global recognition for her design of a “horizontal skyscraper” as her entry to the The Peak competition. Zaha was the first woman to win the London Design Museum’s Design of the Year in 2014 but her work includes the London Aquatics Centre of the 2012 Olympics and Michigan State University‘s Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at MSU in 2012.
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Zaha Hadid also taught architecture at theArchitectural Association School of Architecture,Harvard University, The University of Chicago, andYale University.
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Zaha Hadid dedicated herself to her professional career and never married or had children, which broke many social stereotypes and allowed her to emerge as a role model for Muslim women, exemplifying and opening up opportunities for women and Muslims to become architects.