ARAB-AMERICAN CONTRIBUTIONS

SAM MALOOF

SAM MALOOF CONTINUED • Born Jan. 24 1916 in Chino, Calif.

• Marries Alfreda Ward Maloof and began his career as a furniture maker in 1948

• First featured in the Smithsonian American Art Museum collection at Washington, D.C.'s Renwick Gallery in 1971

• His furniture is exhibited in the public collection at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston in 1976

• In 1985 he was Featured in the 20th Century American Design exhibit at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York

• In 1988 His furniture is exhibited in the public collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Arts in New York

• In 1992 he Received an Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts from Rhode Island School of Design

• In 1995 His furniture is added to the White House Collection of Arts and Crafts in Washington, D.C.

• In 2001 the Smithsonian American Art Museum creates a special exhibit of his work, including one of his rocking chairs

• In 2001 Marries Beverly Wingate Maloof

• In 2003 his hand-built home receives the State of California's Governor's Historic Preservation Award and is relocated to its current location as a living

museum

• Dies at his home in Alta Loma, Calif in 2009

ZAHA HADID

ZAHA HADID CONTINUED • Born in Baghdad Iraq on October 31,1950

• Attended a Catholic school where French was spoken and nuns served as instructors

• studied math at the American University in Beirut, Lebanon

• In 1972 Hadid moved to London and later becoming a British citizen

• enrolled at the Architectural Association School of Architecture

• In 1977 she had received her degree, along with a special Diploma Prize, and she began working for a London firm

• In 1980 she opened her own office

• She taught courses at the Architectural Association

• Her first major building was constructed in 1993 and 1994: it was a small fire station, with numerous irregular angles on the grounds of the Vitra Furniture Company in Weil

am Rhein, Germany

• In 1994 her design for the new Cardiff Bay Opera House in Britain's Wales region was selected for construction

• She designed the unique Bergisel Ski Jump on a mountain near Innsbruck, Austria, and a parking garage and transit station in suburban Strasbourg, France, that later won the

Mies van der Rohe Award from the European Union

• In 2004 Hadid was awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize, considered the profession's highest hono and she was the first woman to receive the award

• She is still alive

REFERENCES

• Sam Maloof: 1916-2009 - Fine Woodworking. (n.d.). Retrieved September 22, 2014, from

http://www.finewoodworking.com/item/14235/sam-maloof-1916-2009

• World Biography. (n.d.). Retrieved September 22, 2014, from http://www.notablebiographies.com/supp/Supplement-Fl-Ka/Hadid-Zaha.html