Dame Zaha Hadid, DBE

Architect

Iraqi-born architect Dame Zaha Hadid is most famous for her highly distinctive, neofuturistic work on the Serpentine Pavilion and the London Aquatics Centre for the 2012 Olympic Games. After studying Mathematics in Beirut, her family left the Middle East for London in the 1970s where she studied at the Architectural Association. Since founding her own company, she has emerged as one of the most original architects of her generation, whose audacious buildings consistently push the boundaries of design. In 2004, Hadid became the first woman ever to win the Pritzker Architecture Prize (considered to be the Nobel Prize of architecture) and received the Stirling Prize twice, in 2010 and 2011. She is currently professor at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Her building in Baku won this year’s Design Museum Design of the Year Award.

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