Zaha Hadid is a world renowned Iraqi-British architect, and the first woman to win the Pritzker Architecture Prize. Her work includes the London Aquatics Centre, the Sheikh Zayed Bridge and Beijing's Galaxy Soho shopping center. Her architectural design firm, Zaha Hadid Architects, is based in London.
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One of Hadid's latest projects is the new mathematics gallery at London's Science Museum, this image shows the proposed design for the gallery entrance.
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The west entrance will look something like this. The permanent gallery will help show how mathematics and mathematicians have shaped the world since the 17th century.
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The arrangement of the mathematics gallery follows the Handley Page aeroplane exhibit's turbulence field as seen in this plan diagram.
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A bird's eye view of the Handley Page aeroplane exhibit and its turbulence field, which is used to organize exhibition zones.
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A study of 3D surface variations, produced by a singular equation, which are used to design the display cases.
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The display case forms which are a series produced by variations within a singular mathematical equation.
