Profile of Zaha Hadid Architects Zaha Hadid was born in Baghdad in 1950. She studied architecture at the Architectural Association (AA) in London from 1972 and was awarded the Diploma Prize in 1977. She then became a partner of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), taught at the AA with OMA collaborators Rem Koolhaas and Elia Zenghelis, and later led her own studio at the AA until 1987. She was made Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Fellow of the American Institute of Architecture and Commander of the British Empire, 2002. She is currently Professor at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, Austria and is the Eero Saarinen Visiting Professor of Architectural Design at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. In 2004, she became the first woman to receive the Pritzker Architecture Prize. Her masterpieces include the Chanel mobile art museum, a travelling exhibition featuring pieces inspired by the Chanel quilt bag; Germany's Phaeno Science Centre, located in Wolfsburg; and the BMW Central Building, located in Leipzig. Projects by Zaha Hadid Architects Zaha Hadid’s work of the past 30 years was the subject of a critically-acclaimed retrospective exhibition at New York’s Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in 2006. Her projects include the Contemporary Arts Centre, Cincinnati, USA (2003), the Hotel Puerta America interior in Madrid, Spain (2005), the Ordrupgaard Museum Extension in Copenhagen, Denmark (2005), the Nordpark Cable Railway, Innsbruck, Austria (2007) and the Zaragoza Bridge Pavilion in Spain (2008). In 2009, Hadid’s revolutionary design for the National Museum of Contemporary Art will open in Rome, Italy and the Guangzhou Opera House will open in China. Projects by Zaha Hadid Architects which recently won design competitions include a new National Art Museum in Vilnius, Lithuania; the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum in Michigan, USA; and the King Abdullah II Performing Arts Centre in Amman, Jordan (joint first prize). Contact: Zaha Hadid Architects Email: [email protected]

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Profile of Zaha Hadid Architects

Zaha Hadid was born in Baghdad in 1950. She studied architecture at the Architectural Association (AA) in London from 1972 and was awarded the Diploma Prize in 1977. She then became a partner of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), taught at the AA with OMA collaborators Rem Koolhaas and Elia Zenghelis, and later led her own studio at the AA until 1987.

She was made Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Fellow of the American Institute of Architecture and Commander of the British Empire, 2002. She is currently Professor at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, Austria and is the Eero Saarinen Visiting Professor of Architectural Design at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. In 2004, she became the first woman to receive the Pritzker Architecture Prize. Her masterpieces include the Chanel mobile art museum, a travelling exhibition featuring pieces inspired by the Chanel quilt bag; Germany's Phaeno Science Centre, located in Wolfsburg; and the BMW Central Building, located in Leipzig. Projects by Zaha Hadid Architects Zaha Hadid’s work of the past 30 years was the subject of a critically-acclaimed retrospective exhibition at New York’s Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in 2006. Her projects include the Contemporary Arts Centre, Cincinnati, USA (2003), the Hotel Puerta America interior in Madrid, Spain (2005), the Ordrupgaard Museum Extension in Copenhagen, Denmark (2005), the Nordpark Cable Railway, Innsbruck, Austria (2007) and the Zaragoza Bridge Pavilion in Spain (2008). In 2009, Hadid’s revolutionary design for the National Museum of Contemporary Art will open in Rome, Italy and the Guangzhou Opera House will open in China. Projects by Zaha Hadid Architects which recently won design competitions include a new National Art Museum in Vilnius, Lithuania; the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum in Michigan, USA; and the King Abdullah II Performing Arts Centre in Amman, Jordan (joint first prize).

Contact: Zaha Hadid Architects Email: [email protected]

Portfolio Showcase

Vitra Fire Station, Germany

Zaragoza Bridge Pavilion, Spain

Bergisel Ski Jump, Innsbruck, Austria

Contemporary Arts Centre, Cincinnati, USA

ZHA Hotel Puerta America, Spain

Chanel Mobile Art Museum

Moon System Sofa for B&B Italia

Louis Vuitton Icone Bag, 2006

All images courtesy of Zaha Hadid Architects and the following: - Zaha Hadid portrait photography by Steve Double - Vitra Fire Station photography by Christian Richters - Chanel Mobile Art photography by Virgile Simon Bertrand - Zaragoza Bridge Pavilion photography by Fernando Guerra - Contemporary Arts Centre Cincinnati photography by Roland Halbe - Moon System Sofa photography by Fabrizio Bergamo