Where did Zaha Hadid study architecture?

Where did Zaha Hadid study architecture? The answer is the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London.

Hadid moved from Beirut to London in 1972 after studying mathematics at the American University of Beirut. At the Architectural Association, usually called the AA, she studied under influential architects including Rem Koolhaas, Elia Zenghelis and Bernard Tschumi. She completed the school’s Diploma in 1977.

The AA was especially important to Hadid’s early development because it encouraged experimental design, abstract representation and challenges to conventional architectural geometry. Her diploma project, inspired by the Russian avant-garde artist Kazimir Malevich, proposed a highly imaginative hotel spanning London’s Hungerford Bridge.

After graduating, Hadid worked with Koolhaas and Zenghelis at the Office for Metropolitan Architecture before establishing her own London practice in 1980. She later returned to teach at the AA. Her education there helped shape the bold drawings and theoretical projects that made her internationally known, even before many of her designs were built.

The listed alternatives are associated with later academic or teaching connections, not her primary architecture education. Hadid did teach or hold visiting positions at institutions including Yale and Harvard.