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Zaha Hadid

1950 - 2016

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Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid (Arabic: زها حديد Zahā Ḥadīd; 31 October 1950 – 31 March 2016) was an Iraqi-born British architect, artist, and designer. She is recognised as a key figure in the architecture of the late-20th and early-21st centuries. Born in Baghdad, Iraq, Hadid studied mathematics as an undergraduate and later enrolled at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in 1972. In search of an alternative to traditional architectural drawing, and influenced by Suprematism and the Russian avant-garde, Hadid adopted painting as a design tool and abstraction as a method to "reinvestigate the aborted and untested experiments of Modernism [...] to unveil new fields of building". Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Zaha Hadid is the 17th most popular architect (down from 15th in 2019), the 16th most popular biography from Iraq (up from 17th in 2019) and the most popular Iraqi Architect.

Zaha Hadid is most famous for her work in the field of architecture. She was the first woman to win the Pritzker Prize, and she is the first woman to receive the Royal Gold Medal from the Royal Institute of British Architects.

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Zaha Hadid ranks 17 out of 518. Before her are Andrea Palladio, Albert Speer, Leon Battista Alberti, Buckminster Fuller, Louis Sullivan, and Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank. After her are Walter Gropius, Oscar Niemeyer, Frank Lloyd Wright, Francesco Borromini, Apollodorus of Damascus, and Georges-Eugène Haussmann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1950, Zaha Hadid ranks 4. Before her are Narendra Modi, Anne, Princess Royal, and Viktor Yanukovych. After her are Agnetha Fältskog, Georg Bednorz, Sergey Lavrov, Abdullah Gül, Tom Petty, Jay Leno, Vicente del Bosque, and Sahle-Work Zewde. Among people deceased in 2016, Zaha Hadid ranks 13. Before her are Bud Spencer, Shimon Peres, David Bowie, Leonard Cohen, Debbie Reynolds, and Alan Rickman. After her are Imre Kertész, Islam Karimov, Dario Fo, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Cesare Maldini, and Pierre Boulez.

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In Iraq

Among people born in Iraq, Zaha Hadid ranks 16 out of 384. Before her are Ashurbanipal (-685), Sarah (-1803), Rabia of Basra (710), Al-Masudi (896), Sargon of Akkad (-2300), and Fuzûlî (1494). After her are Mani (216), Nur ad-Din (1116), Ahmad ibn Hanbal (780), Ezra (-500), Nebuchadnezzar I (-1200), and Al-Ma'mun (786).

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  • Photo of Ashurbanipal

    Ashurbanipal

    POLITICIAN

    685 BC - 627 BC

    HPI: 80.19

    Rank: 10

  • Photo of Sarah

    Sarah

    RELIGIOUS FIGURE

    1803 BC - 1676 BC

    HPI: 79.84

    Rank: 11

  • Photo of Rabia of Basra

    Rabia of Basra

    RELIGIOUS FIGURE

    710 - 801

    HPI: 78.81

    Rank: 12

  • Photo of Al-Masudi

    Al-Masudi

    WRITER

    896 - 956

    HPI: 78.74

    Rank: 13

  • Photo of Sargon of Akkad

    Sargon of Akkad

    POLITICIAN

    2300 BC - 2215 BC

    HPI: 78.68

    Rank: 14

  • Photo of Fuzûlî

    Fuzûlî

    WRITER

    1494 - 1556

    HPI: 78.46

    Rank: 15

  • Photo of Zaha Hadid

    Zaha Hadid

    ARCHITECT

    1950 - 2016

    HPI: 78.46

    Rank: 16

  • Photo of Mani

    Mani

    RELIGIOUS FIGURE

    216 - 274

    HPI: 78.43

    Rank: 17

  • Photo of Nur ad-Din

    Nur ad-Din

    POLITICIAN

    1116 - 1174

    HPI: 78.41

    Rank: 18

  • Photo of Ahmad ibn Hanbal

    Ahmad ibn Hanbal

    WRITER

    780 - 855

    HPI: 78.16

    Rank: 19

  • Photo of Ezra

    Ezra

    RELIGIOUS FIGURE

    500 BC - 401 BC

    HPI: 77.65

    Rank: 20

  • Photo of Nebuchadnezzar I

    Nebuchadnezzar I

    POLITICIAN

    1200 BC - 1104 BC

    HPI: 77.32

    Rank: 21

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    Al-Ma'mun

    POLITICIAN

    786 - 833

    HPI: 77.32

    Rank: 22

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Among ARCHITECTS In Iraq

Among architects born in Iraq, Zaha Hadid ranks 1. After her are Ur-Nanshe (-2500).

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