Zaha Hadid - Artist Info

About Zaha Hadid

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    Following is The New York Times obituary of Zaha Hadid,

    Groundbreaking Architect, Dies at 65
    By Michael Kimmel, March 31, 2016

    Zaha Hadid, the Iraqi-British architect whose curving, elongated structures left a mark on skylines around the world, and who was the first woman to win the Pritzker Prize, her profession’s highest honor, died in Miami on Thursday. She was 65.

    Ms. Hadid “contracted bronchitis earlier this week and suffered a sudden heart attack while being treated in hospital,” her office, Zaha Hadid Architects in London, said in a statement.

    Ms. Hadid, renowned for her theoretical work, created designs that were so complex that for the first few decades of her practice, many of her more ambitious pro...

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