About the Zaha Hadid Foundation
Established by Dame Zaha Hadid (1950-2016), the Zaha Hadid Foundation is an independent charitable organisation dedicated to the legacy of the boundary breaking architect and her commitment to perpetual experimentation across architecture and related disciplines.
In addition to maintaining, disseminating and activating Hadid’s archive, the Foundation mounts public programs, supports education and emerging voices, and partners with a range of organisations both from its base in London, at 10 Bowling Green Lane and Shad Thames, and around the world.
Our mission
The Zaha Hadid Foundation will preserve and promote the work of Zaha Hadid and foster those arts that relate to her life and work.
The founding purpose of ZHF is to preserve and make publicly available the full range of Zaha’s extraordinary output, and more broadly to advance research, learning, and the enjoyment of Modern architecture, art and design.
ZHF will make Zaha’s work available physically and digitally through exhibitions, loans and on the Foundation’s website. In this way, ZHF will advance and preserve knowledge of Zaha across the creative sector.
To facilitate its aim to promote research projects and public learning programmes, ZHF will initiate and participate in creative collaborations with other organisations in the creative sector. The Foundation already has a number of these relationships and anticipates that this number will grow exponentially.
Zaha was an Iraqi woman and an émigré. Her rise to international prominence was by no means an easy one. The Foundation is committed to supporting increased equity and diversity in the architectural profession and related areas of creative practice. At this time, there are considerable economic, cultural and social barriers facing many young people. ZHF is committed to an agenda which will help them negotiate and move through these barriers.
In the spirit of Zaha Hadid, the Foundation will promote positive change in architecture, design and related arts.
Governance
Zaha Hadid Foundation is a registered charity, number 1152943. The Foundation complies with all regulations, terms and conditions of its charitable status.
The Foundation is managed and led by a Board of Trustees, who currently are:
Sir Brian Clarke (Chair)
Hanif Mohamed Kara OBE
Rana Hadid
Sir Peter Cook RA
Joseph Hage is an official advisor to the Board of Trustees
Press
To request the use of images from our collections, please download an image request form for:
Please note, the Foundation requires at least two weeks’ notice to process image requests, although larger requests may take longer. If new photography is required, you will need to allow additional time for this and expect to cover the cost of the new photography.
