About Zaha Hadid
Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid was an Iraqi and British architect, artist, and designer. She is recognised as a key figure in the architecture of the late-20th and early-21st centuries. Born in Baghdad, Iraq, Hadid studied mathematics as an undergraduate and later enrolled at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in 1972. In search of an alternative to traditional architectural drawing, and influenced by Suprematism and the Russian avant-garde, Hadid adopted painting as a design tool and abstraction as a method to "reinvestigate the aborted and untested experiments of Modernism [...] to unveil new fields of building".
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Awards & Honors
Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Jane Drew Prize
Great Golden Medal of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria
Distinguished Guest of Mexico City
RIBA Charles Jencks Award
Fellow of the American Institute of Architects
Pritzker Architecture Prize
Praemium Imperiale
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Austrian Decoration for Science and Art
European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture
Stirling Prize
Royal Gold Medal
Forbes list of The World's 100 Most Powerful Women
