You don’t always have to show art in what’s called a white box; you can have a kind of complexity within an exhibit which actually respects the art as well.
Zaha Hadid Quotes
I used to not like being called a 'woman architect': I'm an architect, not just a woman architect. Guys used to tap me on the head and say, 'You are okay for a girl.' But I see the incredible amount of need from other women for reassurance that it could be done, so I don't mind that at all.
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| Birth: | 31st October, 1950 |
| Nationality: | British |
| Profession: | Architect |
About
Zaha Hadid is an Iraqi-British architect. She received the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2004 the first woman to do so and the Stirling Prize in 2010 and 2011. Her buildings are distinctively futuristic, characterized by the "powerful, curving forms of her elongated structures" with "multiple perspective points and fragmented geometry to evoke the chaos of modern life". She is currently professor at the University of Applied Arts Vienna in Austria.
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