Hadid named Japanese laureate

摘要

Zaha Hadid has been awarded this year's Japan Art Association's Praemium Imperiale architecture laureate. She inherits the title from 2008 laureate Peter Zumthor and will receive a prize of £100,000.rnThe ceremony on October 22 will be presided over by Prince Hitachi, brother of the Emperor of Japan. Thernfollowing afternoon Hadid will give the architecture commemorative lecture. Previous laureates include Frank Gehry, James Stirling, and Richard Rogers.