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Zaha Hadid
Zaha Hadid, born in Baghdad, Iraq, became internationally recognized for her bold, fluid, futuristic architectural designs, and in 2004 she became the first woman ever awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize, architecture's most prestigious honor, in the award's then 26-year history. Hadid's design work was frequently characterized by dramatic curved forms and a rejection of traditional sharp right angles, an approach that became so distinctive it was often described in architectural criticism as "starchitecture" defined by pure visual spectacle and structural ambition. Hadid's notable completed projects include the Heydar Aliyev Center in Baku, Azerbaijan, and the London Aquatics Centre built for the 2012 Olympics, and her architectural firm continued major global projects after her unexpected death in 2016 at age 65. Zaha Hadid's combination of her landmark status as the first woman to win the Pritzker Prize and her boldly futuristic curved architectural style has made her one of the most influential architects in contemporary history.
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Frank Gehry
Frank Gehry became known for developing a distinctive deconstructivist architectural style, characterized by dramatically unconventional, sculptural, often metal-clad building forms that broke sharply from traditional rectilinear architectural design. Gehry's design for the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in Spain, completed in 1997, became a global architectural sensation, and the building's transformative effect on tourism and civic identity in the previously industrial city of Bilbao gave rise to the widely used term "the Bilbao effect." Gehry received the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1989, and his portfolio of dramatically sculptural buildings, including the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, has made his distinctive style among the most recognizable in contemporary architecture worldwide. Frank Gehry's combination of his pioneering deconstructivist architectural style and the transformative "Bilbao effect" of his Guggenheim Museum Bilbao has made him one of the most influential architects of the modern era.
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