Zaha Hadid Architects (London) has become a world leader in urbanism, architecture and design through projects that integrate man-made systems and preexisting topography. The practice has benefited from its collaborations with leading artists, designers, engineers, and clients, and from its work with state-of-the-art technologies. The MAXXI: National Museum of 21st Century Art in Rome, BMW Central Building in Leipzig, Guangzhou Opera House, and Aquatics Centre for the London 2012 Olympics are salient examples of the firm's dynamic architectonic sensibility. Current projects include the KAPSARC Research Centre in Riyadh, High-Speed train stations in Naples and Durango, an office tower in Marseille, and urban master plans in North Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. Zaha Hadid was awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2004.

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1. 她真是太厉害了！
2. I'm surprised at how inarticulate she is about her projects. She has a lot more to say about her coworkers than she does about her architecture. Most of what she says about the projects can be readily seen from the pictures themselves. I suspect that she spent very little time actually working on these projects and a lot more time getting the commissions and running her architectural firm. Most of the actual architectural design and engineering work seems to have been done by her assistants.
   
   I do like most of the buildings/landscapes. I like the fluid lines. The more Brutalist work I don't like, but she didn't show much of that in this lecture.
   
   The one point that she made that seems really pertinent is that how a tower meets the ground is very important. Too often modern architects put their tower on stilts as though touching the ground would contaminate the tower, or they interpose a slab of a platform with the same idea of separating their pristine tower from direct contact with Mother Earth. Towers should relate better than that to their surroundings.
3. she is from Mars..
4. great Zaha الله يرحمها
5. Great Zaha
6. Mohsen Mostafavi -2008–present - Architect
   Head of the Harvard university graduate school of design .
7. You will be missed. RIP Zaha.
8. I used to be wary of this kind of architecture but I have come to see it differently now. For private clients this is conspicuous consumption, much like buying a Lamborghini or Versace suit; existing not so much for meaning as for existing at all. For public clients, in the right guise it is buying a "franchise player" a brand identity icon with proven intrinsic value. "starchitecture for sure, but but not necessarily a frivolity and perhaps not judicable by the traditional yardstick of the profession.
9. She's an amazing inspiration. "Being an Arab and a woman is a double-edged sword" - Zaha Hadid
10. That Moscow house is just so stunning. A real vision of the future.
11. Zaha Hadid should never be allowed to talk about  and to do urbanism.
12. the best architect or in the world----mabrouk is zaha....inti ..ward at..all Arab....joumbouda..
13. I am scared of her. I never did trust her because zaha hadid is an alien whos hiding in a human flesh. Dont you know that her buildings are used to signal her alien friends in their alien world... do not be fooled! Great building though...
14. bonjour cher monsieur Hadid qui vent dire en arabe en Acier car vous l'êtes c est la premiere que je decouvre cette vidéo qui m a éblouie par le travail que vous faites bravo.
    je suis un vieux monsieur qui vient de découvrir archicad et je suis des cours sur youtub.
15. Despite the fact that Zaha is one of the top architects of the world in our time (in the sense of popularity, marketing and other factors) she seems detached from her projects as she explains them.
    Maybe im confused, but the explanation of her work sounds vain. I could give the same justification to her buildings with any other project instead of hers.
    I am not saying i would not like to work in her office and maybe learn architecture from another point of view but from what I can understand from this lecture, this work is a pure and exclusive manifestation of an architects intentions and trademark in order to create an icon in every place she goes.
    The best explanation was given in the galaxy soho with the rice fields and terraces, but only the shape is reinterpreted from here and for what? I heard people destroying BIG for less than this. I am not comparing them and defending anyone, but I really dont understand why so many people say her architecture is of the best of this decade. At plain sight it really seems astonishing, but as a sculpture, architecture is not about making sculptures. A building has sculptural aspects, but it should do much more than that.
    Sure buildings look pretty, people will take tons of photographs in the site but where is the sense of conciousness in context, in history, the relationships in spaces. I really could not appreciate it from her explanation even though by seeing different pictures online I can sense a strong conciousness for creating a specific type of space.
    But, why doesn't she explain this? Why are things like this and not like that? I am not making the typical commentary about Zaha and this long seen debate about her architecture being "meaningless" or "sculptural". I just want to know the reasons for some things to keep learning and finally lean why everyone loves her so much and maybe understand even more her works and appreciate better what she does. 
    If anyone has an answer, please comment, I would really like someone with a different view.
16. architecture arab
17. Seja muito abençoado, Arquiteto Zaha Hadid, iluminado Artista Criador!!
18. rigamortis from a babe!
19. Horrific 
20. She is the best and towers over all other architects.