Zaha HADID

(1950 – 2016)

Iraqi-British architect, architecture professor and designer who became the first woman to receive architecture’s most prestigious honour, the “Pritzker Architecture Prize” | 1950 born in Baghdad / Iraq | 1971 graduates in mathematics at “American University of Beirut” | 1977 graduates in architecture at “Architectural Association School” (AA) in London, works for Rem KOOLHAAS (OMA) | 1980 establishes architectural office in London | 1988 partnership with the German architecture professor Patrik SCHUMACHER | 2000 professorship at “University of Applied Arts” Vienna | 2004 receives Pritzker Architecture Prize | 2005 “German Architecture Award” | 2009 honoured by Praemium Imperiale awarded by the imperial family of Japan | 2016 died in Miami / USA