 | Zaha Hadid is the first woman to win the prestigious Pritzker Prize for architects. |
Architect Zaha Hadid, winner of this year's prestigious Pritzker Prize and a visiting professor at the School of Architecture this term, will speak about her current work on Monday, April 5, at 6:30 p.m. in Hastings Hall, the basement auditorium of the Art & Architecture Building, 180 York St.
Her talk, which is free and open to the public, follows on the heels of the April 1 lecture by Frank Gehry, the 1989 Pritzker Prize winner, who is also a visiting professor at Yale this year.
The Iraqi-born Hadid is the first woman ever to win the Pritzker Prize, which has been the most coveted award for architects since its creation in 1979. She currently holds the Eero Saarinen Visiting Professorship of Architectural Design and has held that post twice before.
The London-based architect and designer counts among her celebrated projects a fire station for the Vitra furniture factory and a visitor center for a flower festival in Weil-am-Rhein, Germany; a parking facility and tram station in Strasbourg, France; and the Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art in Cincinnati -- her first completed project in the United States. Her current projects include the National Center of Contemporary Arts in Rome; a science center in Wolfsburg, Germany; a BMW building in Leipzig, Germany; a train station in Naples, Italy; and a Guggenheim museum in Taiwan. In 2002 Hadid's works in progress were the subject of an exhibition at the School of Architecture.
"The 2004 laureate is probably one of the youngest laureates and has one of the clearest architectural trajectories we've seen in many years. Each project unfolds with new excitement and innovation," said Gehry, the Louis I. Kahn Visiting Professor at the School of Architecture, who was on the jury that selected Hadid for the Pritzker Prize this year.
In 2002 Hadid and Gehry both taught advanced studios at Yale. They are just a few of the Pritzker winners who have taught at the School of Architecture in various capacities over the years. Others include Sir Norman Foster '62 M.Arch., Sir James Stirling, Aldo Rossi, Tadao Ando, Richard Meier, Glenn Murcutt, Philip Johnson and Robert Venturi.
Pritzker laureates have also left their mark on the Yale campus. Gordon Bunshaft, the Pritzker winner of 1988, was the principal designer of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library; Philip Johnson, who received the first Pritzker Prize in 1979, was the architect of Kline Biology Tower; the 1991 Pritzker winner, Robert Venturi, and his partner Denise Scott Brown designed the new Anlyan Center for Biomedical Research on the medical campus; and Gehry designed the Yale Psychiatric Institute.
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