Zaha Hadid

1950 – 2016

Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid was an Iraqi-British architect whose curvilinear, parametric structures redefined the visual vocabulary of late-20th- and early-21st-century architecture. Her major commissions include the MAXXI museum in Rome, the London Aquatics Centre for the 2012 Olympic Games, the Heydar Aliyev Center in Baku, and the Guangzhou Opera House. In 2004 she became the first woman ever to be awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize, and in 2016 she became the first woman to receive the Royal Gold Medal solo.

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