Zaha Hadid

Zaha Hadid became the first woman to win the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2004, pioneering a parametric design style that treated buildings as fluid sculptural forms. Born in Baghdad in 1950, she designed 950+ projects across 44 countries including the MAXXI Museum in Rome (2009), Heydar Aliyev Center in Baku (2013), and the Guangzhou Opera House (2010) before her death in 2016.