Good News In History, October 31

Good News In History, October 31
Good News In History, October 31 On this day, 75 years ago, the British-Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid was born. Described as the “Queen of Curves,” who “liberated architectural geometry, giving it a whole new expressive identity,” Hadid was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for her contributions to world architecture. The firm she founded in London, Zaha Hadid Architects, continues to innovate and build fabulously impressive structures around the world. READ more about her life and work…  (1950) Zaha Hadid in Baku, 2013. Fair Use Born to an upper-class family in Baghdad that included a writer in her brother and an artist in her mother, she studied mathematics in Beirut before moving to London to study architecture where she stood out as a phenom. Her former professor, Rem Koolhaas, described her at graduation as “a planet in her own orbit.” The Bridge Pavilion, Zaragoza CC 3.0. SA Grez In 1980 she founded her firm and got to work putting her “spectacular vision” into concrete. These included the …