1. Zaha Hadid

1. Zaha Hadid is a famous architect. She also designed many urbanized product through interior to furniture.

2. She received a mathematic degree before she went to school in Architectural Association school of Architecture in London.

3. Zaha also taught architecture in many schools. Such as the Knowlton School of Architecture (Ohio State University), Harvard university, Columbia University and so on.

MAXXI (one of her famous design)

4. Zaha, in 2004, became the first woman to receive the Pritzker Architecture Prize. (Pritzker Architecture Prize is an award that honor the living architect who produce consistent and significant contribution to humanity and the built environment through the art of architecture.)

5. One of her famous architecture is The Contemporary Art Center in Cincinnati, Ohio. It is her first project in the United States. The famous design feature of this building is the Urban Carpet. My teacher in the architecture 200 talked about this building before. I found a really cool video in youtube. This video explain the main concept of this building.

6. Zaha Hadid formed a formed a studio in 1980, it starts with five employees. For now, her studio has a staff of more than 300 people, and almost half of them are under 30.

7. As we can see, most of her works are asymmetry. It was because when she was a child in Baghdad, she was thrilled by the asymmetric mirror. It evoked her interest in the asymmetry things.

8. I find a video of her famous work in Youtube.
    Some of her famous architects are: Vitra Fire Station, Rosenthal Centre for Contemporary Art, BMW Central Building, Phaeno Science Center, and MAXXI: Italian National Museum of XXI Arts.

9. Zaha has won a lot of international competitions, but many of her winning designs were initially never built, such as the peak Club in Hong Kong (1983) and the Cardiff Bay Opera House in Wales (1994). In 2002, Hadid won the international design competition to design Singapore's one-north masterplan. In 2005, her design won the competition for the new city casino of Basel, Switzerland.

Dancing Tower (signature tower)

10. Signature Tower used to be called Dancing Tower. When she fist present it in her exhibition, people do not really like this tower. The fluid character of the towers is generated through an intrinsically dynamic composition of volumes. The three towers rise above the creek and project themselves as an icon fro the surrounding developments and for the gulf region.

References:
New York Times, Zaha Hadid, http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/people/h/zaha_hadid/index.html

Youtube, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIzTtl6Lw7U

Youtube,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmOGB1eCFco

Five things you probably didn't know about Zaha Hadid, http://www.mediabistro.com/unbeige/five-things-you-probably-didnt-know-about-zaha-hadid_b7626

Dancing Towers by Zaha Hadid, http://www.yankodesign.com/2007/04/19/dancing-towers-by-zaha-hadid/