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Zaha Hadid
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Bjarke Ingels interview: Zaha Hadid's Vitra Fire Station was an "eye-opening experience" | Dezeen : This video shows Danish architect Bjarke Ingels reflecting on the huge impact visiting Zaha Hadid's Vitra Fire Station had on him as a student. Ingels says he first discovered Hadid's work in 1993, when he came across her paintings while studying architecture at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. "She hadn't built much back then," he says in the movie, which Architizer filmed in New York as part of our Zaha Hadid video tribute collaboration. "These paintings – these amazing fantasies – were actually acrylic paintings, but they looked like they had came straight out of the future." Despite being impressed by the Iraq-born British architect's paintings, Ingels says that many people didn't consider her work to be buildable. "Zaha was probably presented to me as an example of a paper architect," he says. "You know, making these wonderful but also unbuildable fantasies about buildings." Ingels says his perspective completely changed when he visited Hadid's Vitra Fire Station, on the Swiss design brand's campus in Weil am Rhein, Germany. Completed in 1993 – the same year Ingels started university – the fire station was Hadid's first built project. "In the first couple of weeks of my second year as an architecture student, we went to Vitra and saw the fire station," he recalls. "She had somehow found a way to manifest in physical form the seemingly impossible perspectives of floating elements and skewed angles that she had captured in her fantasy." Read more on Dezeen: http://www.dezeen.com/?p=917357 Subscribe to our YouTube channel for the latest architecture and design movies: http://bit.ly/1tcULvh
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Zaha Hadid video memorial with tributes from Foster, Rogers, Ingels, Levete, Libeskind and more : Leading architects including Norman Foster, Bjarke Ingels, Richard Rogers and Daniel Libeskind have paid tribute to the late Zaha Hadid in a video created by Dezeen and Architizer. Foster called the Iraq-born architect, who died last month, "a very special person" while Libeskind said she was "a star in the firmament of ideas". Filmed in London and New York over the last two weeks, a dazzling array of architects and leading international figures from the arts and media – many of whom had close friendships with Hadid – agreed to speak about the Pritzker-prize winner. Many of them gave moving tributes. "Zaha was a genius," said Deborah Berke, dean of Yale School of Architecture. "She was doing work that nobody else conceived of, never mind figured out how to build." Patrik Schumacher, director at Zaha Hadid Architects and Hadid's closest collaborator, described her as a "monumental innovator". Speaking on camera for the first time since her death of a heart attack on 31 March, aged 65, Schumacher said: "Zaha's historical significance I think, if anything, has been underestimated. She's been a monumental innovator, radically expanding the degrees of freedom one has as a composer in space." He also shed light on Hadid's sometimes fiery temper. "She also had a temper sometimes in work, but it came out of an intense will to excellence and a certain degree of insecurity whether what we had at that time was good enough, which kind of fuelled this drive to do more," he said. Read more on Dezeen: http://www.dezeen.com/?p=901155 Subscribe to our YouTube channel for the latest architecture and design movies: http://bit.ly/1tcULvh
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Zaha Hadid: A look back at her work - BBC News : Dame Zaha Hadid, one of the world's leading architects, has died at the age of 65. She was born in Iraq, but called the UK home for 40 years. She designed some of the world's most innovative buildings, including the Guangzhou Opera House in China, and the London Aquatics Centre for the 2012 Olympic Games. Will Gompertz reports. Subscribe to BBC News HERE http://bit.ly/1rbfUog Check out our website: http://www.bbc.com/news Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/bbcworldnews Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bbcworld Instagram: http://instagram.com/bbcnews
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Dame Zaha Hadid | Full Q&A | Oxford Union : SUBSCRIBE for more speakers ► http://is.gd/OxfordUnion Oxford Union on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theoxfordunion Oxford Union on Twitter: @OxfordUnion Website: http://www.oxford-union.org/ As the first woman to have won the Pritzker Architecture Prize and the RIBA Gold Medal, Dame Zaha Hadid is praised for the powerful nature of her architecture. She has also done high profile interior work including inside the Millennium Dome and has worked on fashion design with Lacoste. Her work has been displayed in several museums across the world and led to her being described as "a formidable and globally-influential force in architecture". She designed the £11m Investcorp building at St Antony's College, Oxford. ABOUT THE OXFORD UNION SOCIETY: The Oxford Union is the world's most prestigious debating society, with an unparalleled reputation for bringing international guests and speakers to Oxford. Since 1823, the Union has been promoting debate and discussion not just in Oxford University, but across the globe.
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British-Iraqi, Pritzker Prize winning architect

Biographical Information

Name: Zaha Hadid
Born on 31 October 1950 in , Iraq, Asia
Deceased on 31 March 2016 in , Miami-Dade County, Florida, USA, North America
Place(s) of activity:
1972 - 1977

Studies architecture at the Architectural Association.

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Participation in the following structures & large-scale projects:

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Bibliography

  1. Foster, Norman / Fuksas, Massimiliano / von Gerkan, Meinhard / Hadid, Zaha / Hollenstein, Roman / Ingenhoven, Christoph / Maas, Winy / Piano, Renzo / Rebes, Lliu Viu / Sassen, Saskia / Sauerbruch, Matthias / Sobek, Werner (2003): Tendenzen der Hochhausarchitektur - 13 Standpunkte. In: Detail - Zeitschrift für Architektur + Baudetail, v. 43, n. 1-2 ( 2003), pp. 22.
  2. Hadid, Zaha (1998): Zaha Hadid: The Complete Buildings and Projects. Rizzoli International Publications, New York (USA), pp. 176.

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