Zaha Hadid is one of the most innovative and celebrated architects working in the world today. Born in Iraq, raised in London and recipient of the coveted Pritzker Architecture Prize (and twice winner of the UK's Stirling Prize), Hadid has transformed our experience of space and architecture. This comprehensive volume of over 200 projects - from the earliest experimentations to product design, from follies to large-scale built works, including the recently completed London 2012 Aquatics Centre, Guangzhou Opera House in China and Eli & Edythe Broad Art Museum in Michigan - is a testament to the depth, range and excitement of her vision. The works, organized in chronological order over Hadid's thirty-year career, are introduced by critic and museum director Aaron Betsky, who examines Hadid's output both in the context of architectural history and as a manifestation of the current and future state of architecture. This book remains the essential survey on and insight into the working mind of one of the world's great architects.