At the end of July, Zaha? Hadid accompanied Queen Elizabeth II to open the Olympic Games and was awarded the Best Medal of the British Empire. Zaha. Hadid should have mixed feelings. As a woman, a non-British Iraqi descendant, she finally found her job in London where she lived for 40 years.
"I often joke that if I were not an architect, I might become a singer! In college, I kept singing and singing every day-especially rhythm and blues. " Zaha. Hadid recalled the past and finally smiled. "Everyone thinks I'm crazy!" 1950, Zaha? Hadid was born in a liberal political family in Baghdad, Iraq. When she grew up, she went to Lebanon to go to college, but instead of studying architecture, she studied mathematics.
"But I decided to be an architect as early as 1 1!" At that time, her father took her to visit Sumer in southern Iraq. Sumer is one of the cradles of civilization in the Middle East. The history of this city can be traced back to 4500 BC.
"We went by boat in the swamp, then changed to a smaller thatched boat and visited one tribe after another. That kind of scenery is still imprinted in my mind. I have always thought that I also want to build such a city and create buildings that shine like jewels. "
For zaha. Hadid, AA Building Union College is the best start. It is the experimental center of architecture all over the world, and now some famous architects in the industry are from this institution. She moved to England from 1972 and entered AA School of Architecture. She successfully obtained her master's degree from 1997, and then joined the Metropolitan Architecture Office chaired by the guidance professor, and continued to teach in first-class universities such as AA School of Architecture.
If you didn't start a business at 1980, Zaha? Hadid should be able to stay in academia safely, right? "no! I have no patience, and what I do is not good enough, "she joked. "People say that sometimes I am terrible." Two years in business, Zaha? Hadid won the first place in the international competition of Hong Kong Summit Club, which made her famous all over the world.
Since then, her works have often been selected for international architectural competitions, and winning prizes is commonplace, which seems to be smooth sailing. Another architect, Tadao Ando, when he became an architect, all his competition plans failed miserably. But apart from a pile of award-winning design drawings, there are only a handful of physical buildings (because it also involves issues such as funds and construction methods), and her peers jokingly call her "paper architect" in a sarcastic tone.
"Someone criticized me for being an armchair strategist, as if I didn't know how to build a house. Maybe I thought about giving up, but I would never do that. Every failure is my motivation. "
Fortunately, soon, she waited for an opportunity to clear her name: Vitera, who is famous for making furniture and chairs, found Zaha? Hadid, ask her to build a fire station for the factory.
Future dreamer
1993, the fire station has been built, Zaha? Hadid makes every wall full of personality float, fall or collide with each other with his tenacious attitude against gravity. This makes the world realize that those grotesque and experimental paper buildings can really appear in the real world.
In 2004, Zaha? Hadid won the Pritzker Prize for Architecture, which has the reputation of "Nobel Prize in Architecture" and is the highest honor for architects. Zaha. Hadid's award is of epoch-making significance: she is the first woman to win the grand prize and the youngest winner since the award was founded 25 years ago. 20 10, Zaha? Hadid was listed as one of the most influential 100 people by Time magazine.
Does Jorge Silvetti, a professor of architecture at Harvard University, say this about Zaha? Hadid: "Her unique treatment and application of walls, floors and roofs, as well as those transparent, woven and flowing space designs, vividly prove that architecture, as an art, only needs imagination."
"I don't know what the next building will look like, what is possible and what is impossible." Zaha. Hadid said: "1995, Crystal Jia Rachev wrapped the Berlin Parliament with plastic sheets, and I also visited it. I saw millions of people come here, and everyone got together to sing and dance. I think before this, people should not believe that surreal imagination is actually achievable. "
(Editor/Tang Xin)
Chronicle of events
1950 was born in Baghdad, Iraq.
1977 obtained a master's degree from AA School of Architecture in London.
1980 set up its own architect firm.
1982 won the first prize of Hong Kong "Feng" Society.
Vitera Fire Station 1993 completed.
The Guggenheim Museum designed for Taichung in 2003 was dystocia.
In 2004, he won the Pritzker Architecture Award.
20 12 London Water Sports Center completed.