The Zaha Hadid Foundation is dedicated to preserving, studying and exhibiting the work and artistic legacy of Zaha Hadid.

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ZHF supports the advancement of research into Zaha, her legacy and more generally through the practices of architecture and design.

Research projects

ZHF partners with educational and cultural partners on public programmes that aim to foster learning and enjoyment of Zaha’s life and work.

Learning projects

Irish Prime Minister’s Residence

Malevich’s Tektonik

Habitable Bridge over the River Thames

Heydar Aliyev Centre

Dongdaemun Design Plaza

Boiler House Extension, V&A Museum

Pet Shop Boys World Tour

Museum of the Nineteenth Century

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ZHF is a charitable organisation founded in 2013 by Zaha Hadid.

ZHF will support Drawing Matter’s (@drawing.matt

ZHF will support Drawing Matter’s (@drawing.matter) prestigious Architecture Summer School again this year and, for the first time, we will host the school at our Grade II listed building in Clerkenwell!

During the free four-day course, from Wednesday 27 August to Saturday 30 August, students will take part in various activities and will be guided by the teams at Drawing Matter and ZHF, alongside a team of young architecture tutors.

Drawing Matter is welcoming applications from anyone over the age of 16 who is curious about studying architecture until 6 July 2025. You can register via the link in our bio.

Photograph of students at our Shad Thames site last year by @annarose_mcchesney.

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ZHF and Yale School of Architecture (@yalearchitec

ZHF and Yale School of Architecture (@yalearchitecture) will host a talk by architect and educator Marina Tabassum (@marinatabassum) on 10 June 2025.

Marina Tabassum founded Dhaka-based Marina Tabassum Architects in 2005. In her work, Tabassum seeks to establish a language of architecture that is contemporary yet reflectively rooted to place, always against an ecological rubric containing climate, context, culture and history.

You can register for free via the link in our bio.

Photographs © Asif Salman and Marina Tabassum Architects.

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ZHF and Yale School of Architecture (@yalearchitec

ZHF and Yale School of Architecture (@yalearchitecture) will host a talk by award-winning architect Anupama Kundoo (@anupama_kundoo) on 3 June 2025.

Kundoo will discuss how architectural imagination must transcend design and enter the realms of materials science and economics, where some of the bigger questions reside, and explore the way the time value of money has nudged us towards code-based design. She will also look at the consumption of finite natural resources alongside their impact on human well being and resourcefulness.

You can register for free via the link in our bio.

Photographs © Andreas Deffner and Javier Callejas.

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On this day in 1993, Zaha Hadid's first built proj

On this day in 1993, Zaha Hadid's first built project, Vitra Fire Station opened in Weil am Rheim, Germany.

Commissioned by Rolf Fehlbaum for the Campus of the Vitra Furniture Company, a hotbed of experimentation for new architects and designers at the time, this building by Zaha Hadid Architects took into account the entire edge of the site. It defined the landscape through the corridor-like trajectory of concrete shards that collide to become the fire station’s form.

Find out more about Zaha’s works for Vitra Fire Station on our website, link in bio.

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