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Zaha Hadid
ZAH-hah hah-DEED
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Iraqi British architect, 1950 to 2016, whose fluid, sweeping buildings, the MAXXI museum in Rome, the Heydar Aliyev Center in Baku, the London Aquatics Centre, carried a radical geometric imagination from famously unbuilt paper projects into built reality. In 2004 she became the first woman awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize.
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Defining ContributionFluid architectural geometry; first woman Pritzker laureate, 2004 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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Trained and later taught there.
Zaha Hadid trained at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, graduating in 1977.
Included in the naming 1988 exhibition.
In 2004 she became the prize's first woman laureate.
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