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00:00Women who change the world.
00:30I don't think that architecture is only about shelter.
00:34It should be able to excite you, to calm you, to make you think.
00:38Zaha Hadid.
00:39Zaha Hadid was born on the 31st of October 1950 in Baghdad, Iraq, to an upper-class Iraqi family.
00:47Her father, Muhammad Al-Haj Hussain Hadid, was a wealthy industrialist from Mosul.
00:54He co-founded the left-liberal Al-Ahali group in 1932,
00:58a significant political organization in the 1930s and 1940s.
01:04He was the co-founder of the National Democratic Party in Iraq
01:08and served as Minister of Finance after the overthrow of the monarch.
01:13After the 1958 Iraqi coup d'etat for the government of General Abid al-Karim Qasim,
01:21her mother, Wajihah al-Sabunji, was an artist from Mosul,
01:26while her brother, Fulath Hadid, was a writer, accountant, and expert on Arab affairs.
01:32In the 1960s, Hadid attended boarding schools in England and Switzerland.
01:37Hadid began her studies at the American University in Beirut, Lebanon,
01:42receiving a bachelor's degree in mathematics.
01:44In 1972, she traveled to London to study at the Architectural Association,
01:51a major center of progressive architectural thought during the 1970s.
01:56There, she met the architects Alia Zengilis and Rimm Koulhas,
02:01with whom she would collaborate as a partner at the Office of Metropolitan Architecture.
02:06Hadid established her own London-based firm in 1979.
02:11Hadid's first major built project was the Vitra Fire Station in Wilhelm Rhein, Germany.
02:18Composed of a series of sharply angled planes, the structure resembles a bird in flight.
02:24Hadid was named an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
02:28and an honorary fellow of the American Institute of Architects.
02:32In 2004, Hadid became the first female recipient of the Pritzker Architecture Prize.
02:39In 2005, her design won the competition for the New City Casino of Basel, Switzerland,
02:46and she was elected as a royal academician.
02:49In 2006, she was honored with a retrospective spanning her entire work at the Guggenheim Museum in New York.
02:57In 2008, she was ranked 69th on the Forbes list of the world's 100 most powerful women.
03:03In September of 2010, the new statesman listed Zaha Hadid at number 42 in its annual survey of the world's 50 most influential figures of 2010.
03:16In 2014, 2015, and 2016, Hadid appeared on DeBrett's list of the most influential people in the UK.
03:27In January 2015, she was nominated for the Services to Science and Engineering Award at the British Muslim Awards.
03:36In 2014, the Haidar Aliyev Cultural Center, designed by her, won the Design Museum Design of the Year Award,
03:46making her the first woman to win the top prize in that competition.
03:50In 2015, she became the first woman to receive the Royal Gold Medal awarded by the Royal Institute of British Architects.
03:59On the 31st of March, 2016, Hadid died of a heart attack in a Miami hospital, where she was being treated for bronchitis.
04:09The statement issued by her London-based design studio announcing her death read,
04:15Zaha Hadid was widely regarded to be the greatest female architect in the world today.
04:22She is buried between her father Muhammad Hadid and brother Fulath Hadid in Brookwood Cemetery in Brookwood, Surrey, England.
04:31In her will, she left 67 million pounds and bequeathed various amounts to her business partner and family members.
04:38Her international design businesses, which accounted for the bulk of her wealth, were left in trust.
04:44She was unmarried and had no children.
04:55Women Who Changed the World
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