World Famous Architect Exhibition Hits Bulgaria

Society | May 29, 2007, Tuesday // 00:00
Bulgaria: World Famous Architect Exhibition Hits Bulgaria Bulgaria's Prime Minister Sergey Stanishev visited the exhibition of world famous architect Zaha Hadid's exhibition in the Foreign Art Gallery in Sofia. Photo by Yuliana Nikolova (Sofia Photo Agency)

The exhibition of the world's most famous female architect Zaha Hadid was opened in the Foreign Art Gallery in Sofia.

The exhibition, which is part of the Weeks of the European Architecture in Bulgaria, includes a miniature model of Hadid's most remarkable projects - the building of Culture and Sport Centre of France's Herault department.

The visitors will have the opportunity to see photos of other architect's works in the sphere of the town-planning.

Zaha Hadid is a notable Iraqi-British deconstructist architect. In 2004 she became the first female recipient of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, architecture's equivalent of the Nobel Prize.

A winner of many international competitions, theoretically influential and groundbreaking, a number of Hadid's winning designs were initially never built: notably, The Peak Club in Hong Kong and the Cardiff Bay Opera House in Wales.

Hadid is currently a Professor at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, Austria.

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