Zaha Hadid, the first woman to win the Pritzker Prize, doesn’t do ‘nice buildings.’ ‘I don’t like them,’ she says. ‘I like architecture to have some raw, vital, earthy quality.’ ...

Iraqi-born architect Zaha Hadid poses inside Maxxi museum of contemporary art and architecture in Rome November 13, 2009. The museum opens its doors to the public in Spring of 2010.