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ZAHA HADID WAS A FORCE OF NATURE - Alan Stanton RA

Zaha Hadid with a creative power and strong personality pushed architecture into a new territory that, not only produced seminal buildings, but raised public awareness and encouraged debate about the nature of Architecture. She served as a standard- bearer for women in her field. Born in Bagdhad, Iraq in 1950, Hadid trained at London’s Architectural Assoociation and made the city her permanent home. She also commemorated as the trailblazer of the “Art of Architecture”, stepped beyond the challenges of regional and gender norms as a visionary architect and the first and only female recipient of the Pritzker Architecture Prize. To celebrate her gifts to the global community of creative aspirants, we remember her words:

You have to really believe not only in yourself, you have to believe that the world is actually worth your sacrifices. She leaves behind a body of work from buildings to furniture, footwear and cars, which delight and astound people all around the world. her contribution to architecture as a pioneer and visionary cannot be overstated. she was not only a great architect but also an extra ordinary artist. putting that vision into practice took exceptional conviction, and, during some of her mid-career years, hadid was better known for her work on paper than in practice. Despite her reputation, often criticized for her unconventional ways of thinking, it was undeniable that Hadid was one of the most distinguishable faces in the art world. She led an extraordinary life, but there was so much more to the Pritzker Prize winning architect than her Iraqi heritage as was so often described. Hadid was also the first women to be awarded the RIBA gold medal and was named Dame Commander of the order of the British Empire.