São Paulo – The Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid died at 65 this Thursday (31). According to information from her office’s website, she suffered a sudden heart attack while treating bronchitis in a hospital in Miami, United States. Hadid was the first woman to receive the architecture’s main international prize, the Pritzker, in 2004.
Hadid was born in Baghdad in 1950. She studied Mathematics at American University of Beirut, in Lebanon, and in 1972 starter her career in architecture at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, England, where she lived. The architect opened her own studio, the Zaha Hadid Architects, in the British capital, in 1979.
She designed buildings throughout the world, such as the Maxxi museum, in Rome, the London Aquatics Centre for the 2012 Summer Olympics, and the Guangzhou Opera House, in China.
*Translated by Sérgio Kakitani
