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Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid DBE RA (Arabic: زها حديد Zahā Ḥadīd; 31 October 1950 – 31 March 2016) was an Iraqi and British architect, artist and designer, recognised as a key figure in architecture of the late-20th and early-21st centuries.
From a pool of 25 international architects , the BMW jury chose the very innovative design of Zaha Hadid as the final piece of the BMW plant in Leipzig, Germany. With no real precedent for her design, Zaha Hadid's Central Building can only be related to the revolutionary and monumental industrial designs of the past including Fiat Lingotto Factory by G. Matté-Trucco and the AEG Turbine ...
WU Vienna, Library & Learning Center by Zaha Hadid. Neo-futurism is a late-20th to early-21st-century movement in the arts, design, and architecture. [2] [3]Described as an avant-garde movement, [4] as well as a futuristic rethinking of the thought behind aesthetics and functionality of design in growing cities, the movement has its origins in the mid-20th-century structural expressionist work ...
Hadid received the Gold Medal for Architectural Design, British Architecture for this design. [5] Parc de la Villette: 1982–1983 Paris: France: Not realised. Design of a park housing public facilities devoted to science and music and located outside central Paris. [4] Bernard Tschumi's project eventually won the competition. The Peak [6] 1982 ...
In 2007, Zaha Hadid was appointed as the design architect of the Center after a competition. [4] The Center houses a conference hall (auditorium), a gallery hall and a museum. The project is intended to play an integral role in the intellectual life of the city.
The term was coined in 2008 by Patrik Schumacher, an architectural partner of Zaha Hadid (1950–2016). [1] Parametricism has its origin in parametric design, which is based on the constraints in a parametric equation. [2] Parametricism relies on programs, algorithms, and computers to manipulate equations for design purposes.
Schumacher studied Philosophy and Mathematics at the Friedrich Wilhelm University in Bonn in the early 1980s. [4] In the mid-eighties he studied architecture in Stuttgart and in 1987 continued his architecture study at London Southbank University. [citation needed] In 1988, Schumacher worked in the design studio of Zaha Hadid, on the Vitra ...
The structure was designed by Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid. [8] It is conceived as two rocks washed away by the Pearl River. [9] Its freestanding concrete auditorium set within an exposed granite and glass-clad steel frame took over five years to build, and was praised upon opening by architectural critic Jonathan Glancey in The Guardian, who called it "at once highly theatrical and insistently ...