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Zaha Hadid wins Pritzker
Art in America, May, 2004
Iraqi-born, London-based Zaha Hadid is the recipient of the prestigious $100,000 Pritzker Architecture Prize, given annually by the Hyatt Foundation. She is the first woman to win the award in its 26-year history. A former student of Rem Koolhaas, who won the prize in 2000, she became a partner in his firm Office for Metropolitan Architecture while it was still based in London, after she graduated in 1977.
Though Hadid has become well known over a 25-year period for her innovative theoretical and academic work, as well as for her interiors and furniture designs, it is only in the past 10 years that she began to build regularly. Her designs often incorporate bold, sweeping forms and streamlined geometric constructions. The recently completed Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art in Cincinnati [see A.i.A., Nov. '03], her first U.S. commission, has received wide acclaim. Among other finished projects are the Vitra Fire Station (1993) and the LFone pavilion (1999), both in Weil am Rhein, Germany; the Mind Zone at the Millennium Dome, Greenwich, England (1999); and a ski jump in Innsbruck, Austria (2002).
Works in the planning stages or under construction include an extension to Frank Lloyd Wright's Price Tower Arts Center in Bartlesville, Okla.; the MAXXI contemporary arts center in Rome; a building at the BMW plant in Leipzig and a science center in Wolfsburg, both in Germany; a master plan for the Zorrozaurre district in Bilbao, Spain; a Guggenheim Museum for Taichung, Taiwan; a train station near Naples; and a new public archive, library and sports center in Montpellier, France.
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