Zaha Hadid, the Pritzker architecture that made the dance – Daily News – Lisbon

gave the eye a student and leaves its mark on architecture around the world. Died yesterday at age 65 in Miami.

It is a select lot who can boast the title of starchitect, mixed star and architect, a description often used as critical but which is based on perfection Zaha Hadid, who died yesterday at age 65. Before he received the Pritzker Prize, the most important architecture, and be made the first woman to achieve this, in 2004, he caught the eye recently out of school. He made his first exhibition in 1978 with student projects in the Guggenheim Museum in New York. Only 20 years later would begin to materialize.

Nicknamed neofuturista, Zaha Hadid was the first to accept that their ideas would take years to take shape. He said he, in fact, on one occasion, recalls the architect and critic Luis Santiago Baptista, author of Zaha Hadid in the Space Time Machine (Dafne, 2010). What was different, and that made her win the Pritzer prize – was the first woman and the first Muslim to be distinguished – was this desire to give movement to the space. The British newspaper The Guardian called her the queen of curves. They are a mark of the work of Zaha Hadid, “this dynamic volumes that relate to the landscape”, as summarized Santiago Baptista.

It brings to architecture what the Russian avant-garde art of the early twentieth century brought to the painting, lies the architect and critic. Studies Suprematism artist Kasimir Malevich and Wassily Kandinsky also. “It’s a profound knowledge of this period and this line. It produces theoretical work that stands out among architects. This is the case of The Peak in Hong Kong, 1983.

The first building with its signature, a building housing in Berlin is built between 1986-1993. it is not, however, the work that best reflects your thinking, according to Luis Santiago Baptista. “that’s the Vitra fire station” in an Weil Rhein, Germany, of 1994 says to DN.

the turn of the millennium is the turnaround. “at that time, every week we heard that Zaha Hadid had won an international competition.” Before, working almost alone, taught and lectures by around the world, has curated exhibitions.

Santiago Baptista speaks in a first and a second phase of his professional life. the first, “more craft and manual”, corresponds to the years in which it participates without winning in international competitions. “You have more time, can draw more, makes gorgeous models,” he explains also reminding your (lesser known) facet as a painter. The second phase corresponds to the arrival on the scene of his partner, the German architect Patrick Schumacher, and computers as design tools. The cabinet baptized with his name – Zaha Hadid Architects, based in London – design for everyone. From Dubai to New York, where he made a skyscraper, passing through Azerbaijan, where did the Heydar Aliyev Center (2013) and Qatar, where he designed a stadium for the World Cup 2022.

Between their projects more well received, we highlight MAXXI – National Museum of XXI Century in Rome (2009), the greatest of all, and the Aquatic Centre of the London Olympic Games (2011)

. Lost in the cruise terminal

He participated in a competition in Portugal for the cruise terminal in Lisbon, who won the Portuguese João Luís Carrilho da Graça. it is a proposal that can be view until May 29 at Garage South in Architecture exposure to competition:. course Critical by the Portuguese Modernity

He was involved in controversy (such as the Olympic stadium in Tokyo, which was withdrawn in 2015 it and delivered to a Japanese architect, Kengo Kuma) and gained the reputation of being a person hard to deal with. unfounded accusation, according to John Seabrook in The New Yorker, which describes it as “down-to-earth and lush.” Got together in 2009 when he wrote a profile of the architect and proved that Hadid could not live without a wizard that this response to phone calls, emails and messages that came to him all the time. The news of his death was confirmed yesterday afternoon by his office. “He died suddenly in Miami early in the morning. He had contracted bronchitis early in the week and suffered a heart attack while being treated in hospital.”

Zaha Hadid was born in Baghdad on 31 October 1950. He grew up in the early Bauhaus-inspired neighborhoods of the Iraqi capital, then a monarchy that had been recently released from British control after centuries under Ottoman rule. He remembered those times in the Pritzker acceptance speech: “An indestructible belief in progress and a sense of optimism about the potential to build a better world.” There were tears in public. In 2010 he began to design the Iraqi Central Bank.

He studied mathematics at the American University of Beirut, before diving into the architecture studies in 1972 at the Architectural Association of London. Was Rem Koolhaas and Elia student Zenghelis and collaborated in AOM. In 1979, he began working in his own name, received two time the RIBA Stirling Prize and was awarded the British Empire Dame by Queen Elizabeth II in 2012, while printed their mark on the design – the fashion to furniture. She lived alone in an apartment decorated with his paintings, furniture of his own, the wardrobe (which always caught the attention) five minutes from work.

It was an “inspiration”, according to architect Amanda Levete , author of the building that houses the future Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology EDP Foundation in Lisbon. “It was an extraordinary example for women was fearless and all-terrain. – His work was bold and radical.”