Zaha Hadid

Zaha Hadid was a revolutionary architect, who for many years built almost nothing, despite winning critical acclaim. Some even said her audacious, futuristic designs were unbuildable. During the latter years of her life, Hadid's daring visions became a reality, bringing a unique new architectural language to cities and structures as varied as the Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art in Cincinnati, hailed by The New York Times as the most important new building in America since the Cold War; the MAXXI Museum in Rome; the Guangzhou Opera House in China; and the London 2012 Olympics Aquatics Centre.

At the time of her unexpected death in 2016, Hadid was firmly established among the elite of world architecture, recognized as the first woman to win both the Pritzker Prize for architecture and the RIBA Royal Gold Medal, but above all as a giver of new forms, the first great architect of the noughties.

From her early sharply angled buildings to later more fluid architecture that made floors, ceilings, walls, and furniture part of an overall design, this essential introduction presents key examples of Hadid's pioneering practice. She was an artist, as much as an architect, who fought to break the old rules and crafted her own 21st-century universe.

Introduction
Vitra Fire Station
Landscape Formation One
Bergisel Ski Jump
Lois & Richard Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art
Phaeno Science Center
Ordrupgaard Museum Extension
BMW Central Building
Maggie's Centre Fife
Nordpark Railway Stations
Zaragoza Bridge Pavilion
Sheikh Zayed Bridge
MAXXI: National Museum of XXI Century Arts
Guangzhou Opera House
Evelyn Grace Academy
Glasgow Riverside Museum
CMA CGM Tower
London Aquatics Centre
Mobile Art - Chanel Contemporary Art Container
Pierres Vives
Broad Art Museum
Galaxy SOHO
Heydar Aliyev Center
Dongdaemun Design Plaza
Jockey Club Innovation Tower
Wangjing SOHO
Messner Mountain Museum Corones
Investcorp Building
World Map
Collaborators
Prizes and Awards
Life and Work
Bibliography
Credits