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Zaha Hadid

1950 - 2016

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Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid (Arabic: زها حديد Zahā Ḥadīd; 31 October 1950 – 31 March 2016) was an Iraqi-British architect, artist and designer, recognized as a major figure in architecture of the late-20th and early-21st centuries. Born in Baghdad, Iraq, Hadid studied mathematics as an undergraduate and then enrolled at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in 1972. In search of an alternative system to traditional architectural drawing, and influenced by Suprematism and the Russian avant-garde, Hadid adopted painting as a design tool and abstraction as an investigative principle to "reinvestigate the aborted and untested experiments of Modernism [...] to unveil new fields of building".She was described by The Guardian as the "Queen of Curves", who "liberated architectural geometry, giving it a whole new expressive identity". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Zaha Hadid has received more than 7,920,313 page views. Her biography is available in 72 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 71 in 2019). Zaha Hadid is the 17th most popular architect (up from 19th in 2019), the 16th most popular biography from Iraq (up from 17th in 2019) and the most popular Iraqi Architect.

Zaha Hadid is most famous for her work in the field of architecture. She was the first woman to win the Pritzker Prize, and she is the first woman to receive the Royal Gold Medal from the Royal Institute of British Architects.

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Zaha Hadid ranks 17 out of 424Before her are Leon Battista Alberti, Andrea Palladio, Walter Gropius, Frank Lloyd Wright, Oscar Niemeyer, and Louis Sullivan. After her are Khufu, Francesco Borromini, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank, Georges-Eugène Haussmann, and Renzo Piano.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1950, Zaha Hadid ranks 5Before her are Narendra Modi, Viktor Yanukovych, Sergey Lavrov, and Agnetha Fältskog. After her are Steve Wozniak, Bill Murray, Abdullah Gül, Jay Leno, Stevie Wonder, Vicente del Bosque, and Anne, Princess Royal. Among people deceased in 2016, Zaha Hadid ranks 13Before her are Leonard Cohen, Alan Rickman, Debbie Reynolds, Shimon Peres, Bhumibol Adulyadej, and Imre Kertész. After her are Dario Fo, Cesare Maldini, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Islam Karimov, Andrzej Wajda, and George Michael.

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In Iraq

Among people born in Iraq, Zaha Hadid ranks 16 out of 338Before her are Al-Kindi (801), Ibn al-Haytham (965), Mani (216), Ahmad ibn Hanbal (780), Alexander IV of Macedon (-323), and Rabia of Basra (710). After her are Sennacherib (-740), Sargon II (-750), Ezra (-500), Al-Masudi (896), Nebuchadnezzar I (-1200), and Belshazzar (-600).

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Among ARCHITECTS In Iraq

Among architects born in Iraq, Zaha Hadid ranks 1After her are Ur-Nanshe (-2500).