By John Savill U6
Zaha Hadid is an Iranian-born British architect.
She works on architectural pieces that are flowing and contemporary. Her work reminds me of some Scandinavian design because of the smooth lines and the white/ bleak-monotone colours. I really like the curves and patterns that are created with all of her work. I also like how the light from inside the building is emitted through small gaps in the buildings, creating subtle highlights in the building when viewed from the outside. She creates very large architectural pieces that are of a certain style and sought after. Her single-mindedness and her singular lack of compromise make all of her designs flawless and impressive. She does have many projects that never got out of the preliminary design phase (such as the Cardiff Bay Opera House) because of her un-willingness to change her designs in any way.
Timeline
1977: She worked for her former professors, Koolhaas and Zenghelis, at the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, in Rotterdam, the Netherlands; she became a partner in 1977.
2002: In 2002, she won the international design competition to design Singapore's one-north master plan.
2006: In 2006, she was honoured with a retrospective spanning her entire work at the Guggenheim Museum in New York; that year she also received an Honorary Degree from the American University of Beirut.
2007: In 2007 Zaha Hadid designed the Moon System Sofa for leading Italian furniture manufacturer B&B Italia.
