Revolutionary Architect: Zaha Hadid

Abu Dhabi Performing Arts (concept)

Zaha Hadid, the first woman who won the Pritzker Prize for Architecture in its 26 year history, an equivalent for the Nobel Prize.

Pritzker Prize purpose is:

To honor a living architect whose built work demonstrates a combination of those qualities of talent, vision, and commitment, which has produced consistent and significant contributions to humanity and the built environment through the art of architecture.

Zaha Hadid won the 2004 Pritzker Prize, internationally known for both her theoretical and academic work. Each of her dynamic and innovative projects builds on over thirty years of revolutionary experimentation and research in the interrelated fields of urbanism, architecture and design.

She’s  known as an architect who consistently pushes the boundaries of architecture and urban design, her work experiments with new spatial concepts intensifying existing urban landscapes and encompassing all fields of design, from the urban scale to interiors and furniture.

Boundless, fluid interior space and organic lines composes and characterizes her designs.

Zaha Hadid’s philosophy according to architonic.com is that she continues to be boundless in her creativity and designs and pushes the boundaries of architecture and of urban design in the pursuit of a visionary aesthetic in all fields of design.

Indeed a revolutionary! Happy Birthday Zaha Hadid!

Zaha Hadid Architects [http://www.zaha-hadid.com]