Architects are often very long-lived. Frank Lloyd Wright made it to 91 and I.M. Pei is still alive at 98, the same age that Philip Johnson died. So it was a shock to hear that Zaha Hadid, the ...

News of Zaha Hadid’s untimely death earlier this year shook the architecture community to its foundations. At the Masterpiece collectors’ fair in London, Hadid’s friend and collaborator ...

Before the late architect Zaha Hadid completed now-famous projects like the curved London Aquatics Centre or Rome’s imposing National Museum of the 21st Century Arts, her ideas about form and ...

Zaha Hadid unveiled her installation on the High Line in Manhattan's West Chelsea neighborhood entitled Allongé yesterday. The unique sculpture is made of silver metallic fabric that has been ...

Award-winning architect Zaha Hadid died of a heart attack at age 65 on Thursday. The Baghdad-born architect who made her home in London became the first woman to receive the Royal Institute of ...

In the fall of 2009, city buses rumbled through Rome plastered with close-ups of a windblown Zaha Hadid, promoting the opening of her National Museum of XXI Century Arts. MAXXI, as it is called ...

Zaha Hadid: Doyenne of the Avant-Garde The British-Iraqi visionary, who died at 65 of a sudden heart attack, was one of the handful of elite global architects whose hiring instantly gave projects ...

Zaha Mohammad Hadid was born Oct. 31, 1950, in Baghdad. Her father was a wealthy businessman, a key figure in a progressive wing of Iraqi politics and a minister of finance before the regime of ...