Dame Zaha Hadid was a British Iraqi architect who established a completely new approach in Architecture, by the end of the 20th century and beginning of the 21st century. Her work was greatly influenced by Deconstructivism, and by the Russian Avant-Garde, with Kasimir Malevich, expressing herself through painting and drawing, mostly with abstract themes. In 2004, she was the first woman architect to receive the Pritzker Architecture Award. In 2010 and 2011, Zaha Hadid received the UK Sterling Prize, and in 2012 was attributed the honorific title “Dame”, by Queen Elisabeth II. Her Projects constantly push the boundaries of Modernism Architecture into a different level, being mentioned in an article by the Guardian, as the “Queen of the Curve”.
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More recently, in 2019, the Beijing Daxing International Airport, in China, was inaugurated following the same principle, with the free-flowing curves. It’s one of the largest airports in the World and was inspired by the concept of the Hutong Chinese Houses, organizing space around a main central area. This central area has many curved beams in a large open space, that transports the traveller inside the airport into another Space and Time, into a world of the Future, confirming about what she once said “I really believe in the idea of the Future”. Zaha Hadid was a visionary architect.
