Iraqi-born.

Iraqi-born, London-based Zaha Hadid is the recipient of the prestigious $100000 Pritzker Architecture Prize, given annually by the agency of the Hyatt Foundation. She is the first woman to win the award in its 26-year history. A former close examiner of Rem Koolhaas, who won the prize in 2000 she became a partner in his firm Office for Metropolitan Architecture while it was still based in London, after she graduated in 1977

allowing Hadid has become well known through the whole extent of a 25-year period for her innovative theoretical and academic work, as well as for her interiors and furniture designs, it is barely in the past 10 years that she began to build regularly. Her designs oftentimes incorporate bold, sweeping forms and streamlined geometric constructions. The newly completed Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art in Cincinnati [see A.i.A., Nov. '03] her first U commission, has received wide acclaim. Among other finished casts are the Vitra Fire Station (1993) and the LFone pavilion (1999) the pair in Weil am Rhein, Germany; the Mind baldric at the Millennium Dome, Greenwich, England (1999); and a ski leap over in Innsbruck, Austria (2002).

Works in the planning stages or subordinate to construction include an extension to Frank Lloyd Wright's Price Tower Arts Center in Bartlesville, Okla.; the MAXXI contemporary arts center in Rome; a building at the BMW plant in Leipzig and a science center in Wolfsburg one as well as the other in Germany; a master plan for the Zorrozaurre district in Bilbao, Spain; a Guggenheim Museum for Taichung, Taiwan; a train station near Naples; and a novel public archive, library and sports center in Montpellier, France.

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