Friday, June 25, 2021

Blog post 7: Who is a person/expert on your field that you admire?

Since I started studying architecture, I asked myself why I’ve never heard about a successful female architect, until one day a teacher spoke to me about Zaha Hadid. 

She was born on October 31, 1950. In 1972 she traveled to London to study at the Architectural Association, and she met the architects with whom she would collaborate as a partner at the Office of Metropolitan Architecture, Rem Koolhaas and Elia Zenghelis. Then in 1979, Hadid established her own London-based firm, Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA). Over the years she won many awards in the field of architecture, becoming the first woman to win many of them.

Her projects are characterized by aggressive geometric designs, she was the first woman in design an American museum, the Lois & Richard Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art in Cincinnati, Ohio. She has made train stations, arts and science centers, an opera house, universities, among others.

I like her because she changed the vision of architecture through her designs, she went beyond architecture, making interior designs, furniture, clothing, and different objects. I also admire her very much for all the awards she won, being the first woman in many of them.

                                One of her most recognized projects, Heydar Aliyev cultural center.

4 comments:

  1. Hello Antonia, omg just today I was reading in a book of feminist innovative women about Zara Hadid, it is a coincidence !! The truth is that I found her biography and what she has done to her very interesting and admirable, and precisely for you that she is an expert in your career.
    regards

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  2. Hi Antonia!
    I think it's a good summary of his life. Personally, I think her designs are very interesting and I also think that she is an admirable woman. She was one of the first female architects to make her way into a male-dominated profession.
    Maybe I don't like her way of conceiving architecture (I don't like OMA either), but I think her work is also very valuable, especially in terms of the designs she created.

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  3. Hi Antonia, I also heard the first time about Zaha Hadid from my teacher, he told us the story when he met her once. She was a truly inspired architect and her works are magnificent.

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  4. Hello dear Antonia, I didn't know Zaha Hadid, I don't study architecture but I still like her, I think I will start to follow her work.

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