Zaha Hadid
자하 하디드
Iraq / UK · Pritzker Prize 2004
Baghdad-born, London-based architect known for sweeping, curved forms that seem to flow rather than stand. She was the first woman to win the Pritzker Prize. DDP was one of the last large projects completed in her lifetime.
From Wikipedia
Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid (Arabic: زهاء حديد, romanized: Zahā' Ḥadīd; 31 October 1950 – 31 March 2016) was an Iraqi and British architect, artist, and designer. She is recognised as a key figure in the architecture of the late-20th and early-21st centuries. Born in Baghdad, Iraq, Hadid studied mathematics as an undergraduate and later enrolled at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in 1972. In search of an alternative to traditional architectural drawing, and influenced by Suprematism and the Russian avant-garde, Hadid adopted painting as a design tool and abstraction as a method to "reinvestigate the aborted and untested experiments of Modernism [...] to unveil new fields of building".
From Wikipedia: Zaha Hadid, opening section, lightly shortened. CC BY-SA 4.0
Buildings in Seoul
- Dongdaemun Design Plaza (2014)