Zaha Hadid Architect By: Bryan Muise

Zaha Hadid is a London based Architectural Designer who originated from Iraq. Her designs range from urban scale to interiors products like chairs. She designs the building and what goes inside the building she is unique from others and will never see architectures like hers.
She 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. She then ran her own studio until 1987. She was made Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and Fellow of the American Institute of Architecture, and is Professor at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna.
Hadid has been pushing the boundaries of architectural design in numerous competitions. Winning designs such as the Peak, Cardiff Bay Opera House, and the Centre for Contemporary Arts. Other competition entries include large scale urban studies in places such as Hamburg, Madrid, Bordeaux and Cologne. She also designed museums in Bad Deutsch Altenburg, Austria, Madrid, and London. The list goes on of her unique building designs.
Her major exhibitions are scattered throughout the world, such as London, New York, Tokyo, and San Francisco. Her buildings are even located in universities such as Harvard. She has been chosen as the first woman become the 2004 Laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize. Showing the world women can do work as well as men and inspire new architects and woman that you can go somewhere.