Only a handful of her projects have been built-all to great critical success- and each new project astonishes the world of design with its commitment to revolutionary forms and ideas. You learn all about the talented architect but most importantly you understand the perseverance it took to achieve the success that she did! I would recommend this picture book to all ages but target interest would probably be grade 3 and up!

The author's fondness for this woman is clear from the text and the Author's Note in the back matter, and readers will enjoy seeing photographs of Zaha as well as referring to the Selected Timeline and Selected Bibliography while possibly wondering what made her tick. by Lori Degman, and she is the author-illustrator of Building Zaha: The Story of Architect Zaha Hadid. With her flashy outfits (which were almost always accompanied with a cape) and tempestuous personality, Hadid fully embodied the term "starchitect. Meet three inspirational women from the world of science: Ada Lovelace, Amelia Earhart, and Marie Curie!The groundbreaking monograph contains Hadid's own striking drawings and paintings, as well as hundreds of sketches, plans, and models.

The city of Baghdad was full of thinkers, artists, and scientists, the littlest among them Zaha Hadid. With an audacious and abstracted geometry of forms and lines, the BMW Central Building challenges the notion of building as static and is definitive evidence of architecture as art.It's a collection that can be flipped through for pleasure or studied for a greater understanding on abstraction in design. After founding Zaha Hadid Architects in 1979, Hadid continued to receive accolades for her highly sophisticated, signature projects, including the 2004 Pritzker Architecture Prize, the Stirling Prize in 2010 and 2011, and the 2016 Royal Gold Medal by the Royal Institute of British Architects. Eleven new projects are featured, including 582-606 Collins Street (Melbourne, Australia), Messner Mountain Museum Corones (South Tyrol, Italy), King Abdullah Financial District Metro Station (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia), Dominion Office Building (Moscow, Russia) and One Thousand Museum (Miami, USA). From an Olympic ski jump to the world’s largest airport terminal, this book contains the complete works of Dame Zaha Hadid, one of the great architects of the 21st century and the first woman to win the Pritzker Prize.

It's abundantly clear that her family supported her dreams, aspirations and imagination, nurturing her and giving her the space to breathe and create. Born in Baghdad, Iraq, Hadid studied mathematics as an undergraduate and then enrolled at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in 1972. Also, the illustrations were wonderful really bringing to life the feeling of shape and movement that Zaha saw and placed in her designs. This comprehensive survey of over two hundred projects—from her earliest experimentations to product design, from speculative follies to large-scale built works—is a testament to the depth, range, and inventiveness of her vision.Zaha Hadid’s gift to the world was a creative genius that captured the collective imagination and influenced designers to challenge the perceived limits that were once imposed by both aesthetics and engineering.

During the latter years of her life, Hadid’s daring visions became a reality, bringing a unique new architectural language to cities and structures as varied as the Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art in Cincinnati, hailed by The New York Times as “the most important new building in America since the Cold War”; the MAXXI Museum in Rome; the Guangzhou Opera House in China; and the London 2012 Olympics Aquatics Centre.This practice is driven by the development of rigorous interfaces between natural topographies, human-made systems and innovative technologies that have resulted in almost 1000 landmark projects across the globe. He has been deeply engaged with the world of architecture for almost fifty years and has written numerous monographs on the work of late 20th-century architects. He has taught architectural theory and design at the Knowlton School of Architecture and Otis College of Design. This delightful series (Little People, Big Dreams) introduces young readers to outstanding people, from designers and artists to scientists.