Zaha Hadid - EXP 2 - Alive Client

Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid, DBE (born 31 October 1950) is an Iraqi-British architect. She received the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2004—the first woman to do so—and the Stirling Prize in 2010 and 2011. Her buildings are distinctively futuristic, characterized by the "powerful, curving forms of her elongated structures" with "multiple perspective points and fragmented geometry to evoke the chaos of modern life".

Zaha Hadid grew up in one of Baghdad's first Bauhaus-inspired buildings during an era in which "modernism connoted glamor and progressive thinking" in the Middle East.

She received a degree in mathematics from the American University of Beirut before moving to study at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, where she met Rem Koolhaas, Elia Zenghelis, and Bernard Tschumi. 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. Through her association with Koolhaas, she met Peter Rice, the engineer who gave her support and encouragement early on at a time when her work seemed difficult. In 1980, she established her own London-based practice. During the 1980s, she also taught at the Architectural Association.

In 2002, she won the international design competition to design Singapore's one-north master plan. In 2005, her design won the competition for the new city casino of Basel, Switzerland.

In 2004, Hadid became the first female and first Muslim recipient of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, architecture's equivalent of the Nobel Prize. She is a member of the editorial board of the Encyclopædia Britannica. 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. Her architectural design firm, Zaha Hadid Architects, employs more than 350 people, and is headquartered in a Victorian former school building in Clerkenwell, London.

In 2008, she ranked 69th on the Forbes list of "The World's 100 Most Powerful Women". On 2 January 2009, she was the guest editor of the BBC's flagship morning radio news programme, Today.

In 2010, she was named by Time as an influential thinker in the 2010 TIME 100 issue.[6] In September 2010, The British magazine New Statesman listed Zaha Hadid at number 42 in their annual survey of "The World's 50 Most Influential Figures 2010". She was listed as one of the fifty best-dressed over 50s by the Guardian in March 2013.

She won the Stirling Prize two years running: in 2010, for one of her most celebrated works, the Maxxi in Rome, and in 2011 for the Evelyn Grace Academy, a Z‑shapes school in Brixton, London.

Hadid is the designer of the Dongdaemun Design Plaza & Park in Seoul, South Korea, which is expected to be the centerpiece of the festivities for the city's designation as World Design Capital 2010. The complex is scheduled to be completed in 2011.

Hadid was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 2002 and Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2012 Birthday Honours for services to architecture.

Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaha_Hadid

List of works by Hadid - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_works_by_Zaha_Hadid

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Design Concepts:

1. Design which pushes boundaries
2. The merging of powerful, curved forms with elongated structures
3. Fluid forms and spaces within forms
4. Spaces that in synchronicity with their surroundings 
5. Continuous building mass 
6. Architecture as fluid geometries emerging from the landscape -  http://www.zaha-hadid.com/architecture/dongdaemun-design-park-plaza/
7. Design is a response to and control of, climate and views - http://www.zaha-hadid.com/architecture/33-35-hoxton-square/
8. Spaces created by the funnelling of movement and communication - http://www.zaha-hadid.com/architecture/changsha-meixihu-international-culture-art-centre/
9. Designs embedded within surrounding physical and cultural landscapes and public spaces - http://www.zaha-hadid.com/architecture/beko-masterplan/
10. Design as a growing organism that spreads through successive branches which form the structure “like fruits on the vine:” - http://www.zaha-hadid.com/architecture/abu-dhabi-performing-arts-centre/
11. futuristic designs 
12. "multiple perspective points and fragmented geometry to evoke the chaos of modern life"