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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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Le Corbusier
Le Corbusier, born Charles-Édouard Jeanneret in Switzerland, became one of the most influential pioneers of modernist architecture in the early-to-mid 20th century, developing his "Five Points of Architecture" principles that emphasized pilotis supports, open floor plans, and flat roof terraces. Le Corbusier's 1931 Villa Savoye outside Paris became one of the most studied and celebrated buildings in the history of modern architecture, widely cited as a definitive physical realization of his International Style design principles that rejected ornamental historical architectural styles. Le Corbusier's urban planning theories, proposing dense high-rise towers surrounded by open green space rather than traditional dense street-level city blocks, proved enormously influential on 20th-century public housing and urban development worldwide, though his ideas also drew significant later criticism for contributing to isolating, poorly integrated housing projects. Le Corbusier's combination of his foundational Five Points of Architecture and his globally influential, if later contested, urban planning theories has made him one of the most consequential architects in the history of modernism.
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