Zaha Hadid Dead: Architect Dies of heart attack at the age of 65

Zaha Hadid news: Dies of heart attack at the age of 65

Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid, an Iraqi-born British architect dies of heart attack at he age of 65 years. She had a heart attack on Thursday while in hospital in Miami, where she was being treated for bronchitis.

A lengthy statement released by her company said: "It is with great sadness that Zaha Hadid Architects have confirmed that Dame Zaha Hadid DBE died suddenly in Miami in the early hours of this morning.

"She had contracted bronchitis earlier this week and suffered a sudden heart attack while being treated in hospital. Zaha Hadid was widely regarded to be the greatest female architect in the world today."

According to NY Times:

London - WHEN I was still an architecture student at Yale, I got stuck in New York City traffic with one of my professors, Zaha Hadid, and her chauffeur. I asked her whether she had any advice for me, a young female architecture student graduating into a depressed market dominated by men. She simply said, "Come work for me."

I told her, "O.K., but only if I get to design shoes."

She replied, "If you work for me, you can design anything."

According to Aljazeera news: Hadid was born into a prominent family in Baghdad during the last years of the Hashemite monarchy.

She grew up in the aftermath of the military coup led by Brigadier General Abdul Karim Qassim, and left for Beirut to continue with her college education in mathematics as Saddam Hussein staged yet another coup to seize power, before finally moving to London to study architecture.

Just as the devastating Iran-Iraq war (1980-1988) was about to start, she had already established her own company, Zaha Hadid Architects, in 1979. 

As her homeland collapsed into chaos and mayhem, Hadid soared in fame and achievements.

History had placed her singlehandedly to build in the name and memory of her homeland what destructive forces of power and violence destroyed in her birthplace. 

As tall and iconic buildings were falling down after the US-led invasion and destruction of Iraq, Hadid built ever taller and more magnificent buildings around the globe.