Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid,DBE(Arabic: Zah add; born 31 October 1950) is an Iraqi-British architect. She received thePritzker Architecture Prizein 2004the first woman to do soand theStirling Prizein 2010 and 2011.Her buildings are distinctivelyneofuturistic, characterized by the "powerful, curving forms of her elongated structures"[1]with "multiple perspectivepoints andfragmented geometryto evoke the chaos of modern life".[2]She is currently professor at theUniversity of Applied Arts Viennain Austria.Zaha Hadid was born on 31 October 1950 inBaghdad, Iraq. She grew up in one of Baghdad's firstBauhaus-inspired buildings during an era in which "modernismconnoted glamor and progressive thinking" in the Middle East.[1]She received a degree in mathematics from theAmerican University of Beirutbefore moving to study at theArchitectural Association School of Architecturein London, where she metRem Koolhaas,Elia Zenghelis, andBernard Tschumi. She worked for her former professors, Koolhaas and Zenghelis, at theOffice for Metropolitan Architecture, inRotterdam, theNetherlands; she became a partner in 1977. Through her association with Koolhaas, she metPeter Rice, the engineer who gave her support and encouragement early on at a time when her work seemed difficult. In 1980, she established her own London-based practice. During the 1980s, she also taught at the gap Association.

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Library and Learning Centre University of Economics Vienna

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Issam Fares Institute American University of Beirut One Thousand Museum Tower New York Apartment Block

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Gehry was born Frank Owen Goldberg[1]on February 28, 1929, inToronto,Ontarioto parents, Irwin and Thelma (ne Thelma Caplan) Goldberg.[4]His parents werePolish Jews.[5]A creative child, he was encouraged by his grandmother, Mrs. Caplan, with whom he would build little cities out of scraps of wood.[6]With these scraps from her husband's hardware store, she entertained him for hours, building imaginary houses and futuristic cities on the living room floor.[4]His use ofcorrugated steel,chain link fencing, unpaintedplywoodand other utilitarian or "everyday" materials was partly inspired by spending Saturday mornings at his grandfather's hardware store. He would spend time drawing with his father and his mother introduced him to the world of art. "So the creative genes were there", Gehry says. "But my mother thought I was a dreamer, I wasn't gonna amount to anything. It was my father who thought I was just reticent to do things. He would push me."[7]He was given theHebrew name"Ephraim" by his grandfather but only used it at hisbar mitzvah.[1]In 1947 Gehry moved toCalifornia, got a job driving a delivery truck, and studied atLos Angeles City College, eventually to graduate from theUniversity of Southern California's School of Architecture. During that time, he became a member ofAlpha Epsilon Pi.[8]According to Gehry: I was atruck driverin L.A., going to City College, and I tried radio announcing, which I wasn't very good at. I tried chemical engineering, which I wasn't very good at and didn't like, and then I remembered. You know, somehow I just started racking my brain about, "What do I like?" Where was I? What made me excited? And I remembered art, that I loved going to museums and I loved looking at paintings, loved listening to music. Those things came from my mother, who took me to concerts and museums. I remembered Grandma and the blocks, and just on a hunch, I tried some architecture classes.[9]In 1952 he married Anita Snyder, and in 1956 he changed his name to Frank O. Gehry at her suggestion, in part because of theanti-semitismhe had experienced as a child and as an undergraduate at USC. Gehry graduated at the top of his class with a Bachelor of Architecture degree from USC in 1954. Afterwards, he spent time away from the field of architecture in numerous other jobs, including service in theUnited States Army. In the fall of 1956, he moved his family to Cambridge, where he studiedcity planningat theHarvard Graduate School of Design. He left before completing the program, disheartened and underwhelmed. Gehry's left-wing ideas about socially responsible architecture were under-realized, and the final straw occurred when he sat in on a discussion of one professor's "secret project in progress" - a palace that he was designing for right-wing Cuban Dictator Fulgencio Batista (1901-1973).[4]In 1966 he and Snyder divorced. In 1975 he married Panamanian Berta Isabel Aguilera, his current wife. He has two daughters from his first marriage, and two sons from his second marriage.Having grown up in Canada, Gehry is a huge fan ofice hockey. He began a hockey league in his office, FOG (which stands for Frank Owen Gehry), though he no longer plays with them.[citation needed]In 2004, he designed the trophy for theWorld Cup of Hockey.[citation needed]Gehry holdsdual citizenshipin Canada and the United States. He lives in Santa Monica, California, and continues to practice out ofLos Angeles.Walt Disney Concert Hall Mixed-Use Tower for Downtown Santa Monica

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