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Created: March 22, 2004
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First Woman to Win Top Architecture Prize: Zaha Hadid

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The NY Times article took me by surprise today. I'm embarassed to admit I didn't even know what the Pritzker Prize was. But I followed through and found Zaha Hadid's own site, and took the time to look carefully at her work. I've linked some of it here for you. I was amazed at the modern lines of the mosque, at the fairy tale quality of the summer gardens, at the extensiveness of the project, at the way that she incorporated the site into the surrounding desert and bodies of water I was amazed at the bits of bright color. At the veil in red. At my own sense of being like a fly on the wall, able to watch Others in their proposed spaces.

This planning is all going on for Qatar right along with the occupation. I don't exactly know what I think about it all, just that I need to think on all this. Her drawings and plans make the Middle East soft and lovely and not at all as I've been picturing this last year. This is a project proposal, not yet built, not yet existing. Yet it presented me with totally new perspectives or proposed perspectives for the Middle East. This is the power of visual sociology. jeanne

New York Times Article on Awarding of Pritzker Prize in Architecture to Iraqi-Born Woman . . . Backup.

Visit her home site at Zaha Hadid Architects Click on her image. Then wait for the intro lines to make their pattern. Move your cursor to the upper inch of the screen and left of middle. STUDIO will appear. Click on STUDIO. Hers is a beautiful site well worth taking the time to peruse. ArchNet Digital Library http://archnet.org/library/images/one-image.tcl?image_id=57744# Original source URL.