Eaton place zaha hadid biography

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List of works by Zaha Hadid

Image Title Year Location Country Status Description Malevich's Tektonik 1976-1977 LondonUnited KingdomConceptual Fourth-year student design project for a hotel on the Hungerford Bridge over the Thames.^[1]Museum of the Nineteenth Century 1977–1978 LondonUnited KingdomConceptual Fifth-year student design thesis; "one of my first ideological and conjectural projects".^[2]Dutch Parliament Extension 1978–1979 The HagueThe NetherlandsConceptual Extension of the Binnenhof complex for parliamentary accommodation. With Rem Koolhaas and Elia Zenghelis.^[2]Irish Prime Minister's Residence 1979–1980 Dublin, Phoenix ParkIrelandConceptual Residence and state function room for the Taoiseach. "The objective was to create a weightlessness, freedom from the stress of public life."^[3]59 Eaton Place1981–1982 LondonUnited KingdomNot realised. Renovation

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Zaha M. Hadid was transformed from an unknown architect into an international presence when she won the prestigious competition for the Hong Kong Peak Club in 1983. In addition, this victory helped establish deconstruction as a viable style of architecture. Although the project was canceled for financial reasons, Hadid used the momentum generated bygd her unexpected triumph to build a strong reputation and remain in the international arena. This was quite a feat for the Iraqi architect, as her first building, the Vitra Fire Station (Weil-am-Rhein, Germany), was not completed until 1993. The power and quality of the deconstructive designs produced throughout her career are impressive, and they have brought her international renown. Hadid's success was demonstrated early when she was awarded the Architectural Association (AA) in London Diploma Prize in 1977. Her deconstructivist designs, composed of dynamic forms and presented in elaborate renderings, are critically acc

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Text by Klaus Leuschel
Bern, Switzerland
06.04.16

Respected design critic and curator Klaus Leuschel pays a personal tribute to the Baghdad-born architect who, despite her non-establishment profile, would go on to become one of industry’s most influential and paradigm-shifting grandees.

Zaha Hadid (1950–2016); photo Brigitte Lacombe

The International Style, as the various manifestations of contemporary architecture – from the Netherlands, Germany, and Czechoslovakia to Italy and France – synoptically presented by Alfred Barr and Philip Johnson at New York’s Museum of Modern Art in 1933, was a largely Eurocentric idea.

Perhaps it took the appearance of someone like Zaha Hadid on the scene to liberate architecture from the corset of Euclidean patterns of thought: 50 years later, with the competition entry for a leisure club above Hong Kong (The Peak Leisure Club).

I met her in Frankfurt in 1978. Then