Monday, June 27, 2011

Zaha Hadid2


Ongoing and future projects


Recently[when?] Hadid has been commissioned by the Iraqi government to design the new building for the Central Bank of Iraq. This project will be her first project for her native country.[16]
Other work includes the new departmental records building, Pierres vives, for Hérault in Montpellier.[17]
Zaha Hadid's project was named as the best for the Vilnius Guggenheim Hermitage Museum in 2008. She designed the Innovation Tower forHong Kong Polytechnic University, scheduled for completion in 2011, and the Chanel Mobile Art Pavilion that was displayed in Hong Kong in 2008.[18][19][20] She has been commissioned to design new buildings for Evelyn Grace Academy, Brixton.[21]

[edit]Exhibitions

  • 1978 - Guggenheim Museum, New York
  • 1983 - Retrospective at the Architectural Association, London
  • 1985 - GA Gallery, Tokyo
  • 1988 - Deconstructivist Architecture show at MoMA, New York
  • 1995 - Graduate School of Design at Harvard University
  • 1997 - San Francisco MoMA
  • 2000 - British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale
  • 2001 - Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg
  • 2002 - (10 May-11 August) Centro nazionale per le arti contemporanee, Rome[22]
  • 2003 - (4 May - 17 August) - MAK - Museum für angewandte Kunst (Museum of Applied Arts) in Vienna
  • 2006 - (3 June - 25 October) – Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
  • 2006 - (1 June - 29 July) – Ma10 Mx Protetch Gallery, Chelsea, NYC
  • 2007 - (29 June - 25 November) - Design Museum, London

[edit]Films and Videos

  • A Day with Zaha Hadid 2004, 52 minutes, colour. New York: Michael Blackwood Productions.

[edit]Awards

[edit]See also

[edit]References

  1. ^ AIA. "Convention 2008". AIA. pp. 14. Retrieved 2009-05-05.[dead link]
  2. ^ Forbes: The World's 100 Most Powerful Women
  3. ^ "Guest editor: Zaha Hadid". BBC. 2008-12-27. Retrieved 2009-01-17.
  4. ^ Time 100 - Thinkers : Zaha Hadid
  5. ^ "42. Zaha Hadid - 50 People Who Matter 2010". New Statesman. Retrieved 12 October 2010.
  6. ^ ARTINFO's List of 7 Spectacular Snafus From Last Week's Venetian Festivities ARTINFO.COM
  7. ^ Lacoste
  8. ^ [www.triflowconcepts.com]
  9. ^ www.bebitalia.it
  10. ^ "Tondonia Winery Pavillion / Zaha Hadid". archdaily. 2009-05-14. Retrieved 2009-08-07.
  11. ^ "Maxxi_Museo Nazionale Delle Arti Del Xxi Secolo". Darc.beniculturali.it. Retrieved 2009-01-17.
  12. ^ Michigan State University: World-class building under way with Broad Art Museum groundbreaking, retrieved 3 April 2010
  13. ^ Afragola station delayedToday's Railways Europe. December 2008. p. 52.
  14. ^ "Photo from Reuters Pictures". Reuters Daylife. Retrieved 2009-01-17.[dead link]
  15. ^ http://wdc2010.seoul.go.kr/eng/with/busi_ddp.jsp
  16. ^ [1]
  17. ^ "Pierres vive" (in French). Retrieved 2009-03-11.
  18. ^ Bonnie Chen In the frame May 25, 2009 The Standard
  19. ^ PolyU appoints Ms Zaha Hadid as Architect of Innovation Tower December 12, 2007 Hong Kong Polytechnic University
  20. ^ Hadid goes back to Hong Kong Z aha Hadid's Innovation Tower in Hong Kong Friday 14 Dec 2007 World Architecture News.com
  21. ^ Evelyn Grace Academy: Buildings & facilities
  22. ^ "D A R C - Zaha Hadid". Darc.beniculturali.it. Retrieved 2009-01-17.
  23. ^ "RIBA Awards". e-architects. Retrieved 2009-09-21.
  24. a b "RIBA European Awards". RIBA. Retrieved 2009-09-21.
  25. ^ "2010 RIBA Award Winners Announced". Bustler. Retrieved 2010-05-28.
  26. ^ Heathcote, Edwin (2010-10-03). "Hadid finally wins Stirling Prize"Financial Times. Retrieved 2010-10-03.

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Zaha Hadid1


Life and career

Hadid was born in 1950 in BaghdadIraq. She received a degree in mathematics from theAmerican University of Beirut before moving to study at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London.
After graduating she worked with her former teachers, Rem Koolhaas and Elia Zenghelis at theOffice for Metropolitan Architecture, becoming a partner in 1977. It was with Koolhaas that she met the engineer Peter Rice who gave her support and encouragement early on, at a time when her work seemed difficult to build. In 1980 she established her own London-based practice. During the 1980s she also taught at the Architectural Association. She has also taught at prestigious institutions around the world; she held the Kenzo Tange Chair at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, the Sullivan Chair at the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Architecture, guest professorships at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Hamburg, the Knowlton School of Architecture, at The Ohio State University, the Masters Studio at Columbia University, New York and the Eero Saarinen Visiting Professor of Architectural Design at the Yale School of Architecture in New Haven, Connecticut. In addition, she was made Honorary Member of theAmerican Academy of Arts and Letters and an Honorary Fellow of the American Institute of Architects.[1] She has been on the Board of Trustees of The Architecture Foundation. She is currently Professor at the University of Applied Arts Vienna in Austria.
A winner of many international competitions, theoretically influential and groundbreaking, a number of Hadid's winning designs were initially never built: notably, The Peak Club in Hong Kong (1983) and the Cardiff Bay Opera House in Wales (1994). In 2002 Hadid won the international design competition to design Singapore's one-north masterplan. In 2005, her design won the competition for the new city casino of BaselSwitzerland. In 2004 Hadid became the first female recipient of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, architecture's equivalent of the Nobel Prize. Previously, she had been awarded a CBE for services to architecture. She is a member of the editorial board of theEncyclopædia Britannica. In 2006, Hadid was honored with a retrospective spanning her entire work at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. In that year she also received an Honorary Degree from the American University of Beirut.
Zaha Hadid's architectural design firm - Zaha Hadid Architects - is over 350 people strong, headquartered in a Victorian former school building in Clerkenwell, London.
In 2008, she ranked 69th on the Forbes list of "The World's 100 Most Powerful Women".[2] On 2 January 2009, she was the guest editor of the BBC's flagship morning radio news programme,Today.[3]
In 2010 she was named by Time magazine as influential thinker in the 2010 TIME 100 issue.[4] In September 2010, The British magazine New Statesman listed Zaha Hadid at number 42 in their annual survey of "The World's 50 Most Influential Figures 2010".[5]
She won the 2010 Stirling Prize for one of her most celebrated work, the Maxxi in Rome.
Hadid is the designer of the Dongdaemun Design Plaza & Park in SeoulSouth Korea, which is expected to be the centerpiece of the festivities for the city's designation as World Design Capital2010. The complex is scheduled to be completed in 2011.
In June 2011, had her own unexpected bungle at "Glasstress," one of the Biennale's most highly anticipated collateral events. "Glasstress," now in its second iteration, invites artists who may not traditionally work in glass to create original glass designs. This year's participants included Kiki SmithVik MunizTony Oursler, and Hadid. However, Hadid couldn't fully execute her large-scale glass construction in time for the show. The curators were forced to display a few-year-old Hadid fiberglass sculpture instead. (Whether or not fiberglass actually counts as glass is up for debate.) The wall text tried to redeem Hadid's failure by spinning it as an important reminder of the laborious and unpredictable nature of glass. [6]

[edit]Non-architectural work

She has also undertaken some high-profile interior work, including the Mind Zone and Feet zone at the Millennium Dome in London and the Z.CAR hydrogen-powered, three-wheeled automobile. In 2009, she worked with the clothing brand Lacoste, to create a new, high fashion, and advanced boot.[7] In the same year, she also collaborated with the brassware manufacturer Triflow Concepts[8] to produce two new designs in her signature parametric architectural style. Her unique contributions to brassware design and other fields continue to push the boundaries of innovation.
In 2007, Zaha Hadid designed the Moon System Sofa for leading Italian furniture manufacturerB&B Italia.[9]

[edit]Architectural work

[edit]Conceptual projects

[edit]Completed projects