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Zaha Hadid
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Definition
Iraqi-British architect (1950–2016), the first woman to win the Pritzker Architecture Prize (2004). Hadid developed a distinctive style of dynamic, fluid forms derived from her early painting and deconstructivist experimentation. Her built works challenged conventions of structure, surface, and spatial experience.
Example
The MAXXI National Museum of 21st Century Arts in Rome (2009) is among Hadid's finest buildings — a complex of interlocking concrete forms and overlapping galleries that creates a rich, disorienting spatial sequence.