Iraqi-born British architect Zaha Hadid, was the first female winner of the top Pritzker Architecture Prize on this day in 2004...
Zaha Hadid was born into a prominent family in Baghdad during the last years of the Hashemite monarchy.
She grew up in the aftermath of the military coup led by Brigadier General Abdul Karim Qassim, and left for Beirut to continue with her college education in mathematics, before moving to London to study architecture.
"Hadid took a fistful of everything that was good and beautiful in her homeland ... and with it she signed her signature on every corner of the globe she visited," Hamid Dabashi wrote.
In 1979, she established her own practice in London, the Zaha Hadid Architects. She was a woman in a field dominated by men, but her passion was in pushing the limits of design.
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