Zaha Hadid, a key figure of contemporary architecture, is suddenly died Thursday at age 65 in a hospital in Miami, the United States, a consecutive heart attack bronchitis .
“it is with great sadness that Zaha Hadid Architects Zaha Hadid confirms that died suddenly in Miami earlier this morning. She was suffering from bronchitis contracted earlier this week and had a heart attack during his treatment at the hospital, “said his architectural firm, which is headquartered in the heart of London’s Clerkenwell.
with this death, the world of architecture loses one of its global stars, and the first and only woman to win the Pritzker prize, the equivalent of the Nobel among architects. That was in 2004.
She was also the first woman to win the prestigious Royal Gold Medal for Architecture for the year 2016, after Jean Nouvel, Frank Gehry or Oscar Niemeyer.
the UK Culture Minister Ed Vaizey said he was “stunned” by the news, in a tweet praising “the enormous contribution to modern architecture” made by Zaha Hadid.
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said to him “that his creativity had benefited the whole world (…), someone who loses a great energy.”
Richard Rogers , one of the architects of the Pompidou Centre in Paris, “is a great loss” for the world of architecture. “Among the architects that have emerged in recent decades, no one has had as much impact it,” he told the Guardian
-. Female architect, a fight –
claiming of deconstructionism, current challenges the classical architectural canons and claims to rethink the geometry of the building, Zaha Hadid was demanded around the world
on him. must include the ski jumping hill of Innsbruck in Austria, opera Canton in China, the MAXXI (National Museum of the XXI century) in Rome and the tower of the 3rd global shipping group CMA-CGM in Marseille .
it also created the pool of the London Olympics in 2012 and the Guggenheim Museum in Taichung (Taiwan). Its buildings mixed concepts often marry strained oblique lines and curves, in search of weightlessness.
His success as a woman in a male environment always was however not obvious, did -she said repeatedly.
this brunette with curvaceous and strong character and confided to AFP in the mid 2000s to drill “is not so much racism as being a woman in Britain who has long hindered Yes, I have succeeded, but the road was neither easy nor strewn with roses “
.”; this is the result a very long battle. at first I was a fierce from work and I was working day and night, “she said in 2012 the architect Courier.
Zaha Hadid was born in Iraq in 1950 where she received a liberal education. She first chose to study mathematics, obtaining a license from the American University of Beirut, before opting for architecture.
A graduate of the London Architectural Association 1977, she decided to stay in this city where she created her firm in 1979 while working with the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA).
its success has recently been tarnished by controversy over the stadium Al Wakrah she designed for the World Cup 2022 in Qatar – she denied in an interview on the BBC the death of workers during construction – and a setback in Japan
Chosen for. oversee the construction of the Olympic stadium for the Tokyo Olympics in 2020, the project was considered too expensive, was finally abandoned last year
. Source: AFP
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