Zaha Hadid

Zaha Hadid………………

Born in Baghdad in 1950, Zaha Hadid studied architecture at the Architectural Association from 1972, where she was awarded the Diploma Prize in 1977.

She then became a member of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture;

Began teaching at the AA with Rem Koolhaas and Elia Zenghelis

Later lead her own studio at the AA until 1987.


Was awarded wide recognition in 1983, with a winning entry for The Peak Club, Hong Kong,

First place awards for competitors in Kufurstendamm, Berlin (1986); for an Art and Media Centre in Dusseldorf (1989); and for the Cardiff Bay Opera House in 1994.

Hadid began her own practice in 1979 with the design for an Apartment in Eaton Place, London. This work was awarded the Architectural Design Gold Medal during 1982.

Since then she held the Kenzo Tange Chair at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, the Sullivan Chair at the University of Chicago School of Architecture, guest professorships at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Hamburg, the Knolton School of Architecture, Ohio and at the Masters Studio at Columbia University, New York.

She will be the Eero Saarinen Visiting Professor of Architectural Design for the Spring Semester 2002 at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. In addition, she was made Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and Fellow of the American Institute of Architecture, and is Professor at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna.

Zaha Hadid’s built work has won her much academic and public acclaim.

Her best known projects to date are the Vitra Fire Station and the LFone pavilion in Weil am Rhein, Germany (1993/1999), a housing project for IBA-Block 2, Berlin (1993) and most recently the Mind Zone at the Millennium Dome, Greenwich, London (1999).


Design for an Apartment in Eaton Place, London. This work was awarded the Architectural Design Gold Medal during 1982.

Hadid's paintings and drawings have been shown internationally, beginning with a large retrospective at the AA in 1983.

Other major exhibitions include the Guggenheim Museum, New York (1978); the GA Gallery, Tokyo (1985); the Museum of Modern Art in New York (1988)

Best Works

Vitra Fire Station and the LFone pavilion in Weil am Rhein, Germany (1993/1999)

a housing project for IBA-Block 2, Berlin (1993)

the Mind Zone at the Millennium Dome

Furniture Design

Zaha Hadid has recently exhibited her furniture designs Z-Scape at Sawaya & Moroni Lounging Furniture Fair in Milan (2000); exhibited projects at the Venice Biennale; Austria Pavilion, Bergisel Ski-jump, Austria, Spittelau Viaducts, Vienna; International Pavilion, Contemporary Arts Centre, Rome, Contemporary Arts Centre, Cincinnati; British Pavilion, Holloway Road Bridge Link, London, Thames Water Habitable Bridge, London and the Mind Zone, Millennium Dome, London; an installation ‘Meshwork’ for the gardens of the Villa Medici in Rome (2000)

Paintings

Hadid’s paintings and drawings have always been an important testing field, and a medium for the exploration of her design. This work is widely published in periodicals and monographs

Which include Zaha Hadid: Planetary Architecture Two (no.11, 1983); GA Architect: Zaha Hadid (no.5, AA files, summer,1986, Tokyo); Zaha Hadid 1983-1991, El Croquis ( no.52, Dec, 1991,Madrid); Zaha Hadid 1992-1995, El Croquis (no. 73, Sept, 1995, Madrid); El Croquis 1996-2001 (no. 103, 2001, Madrid)

The Lois& Richard Rosenthal center for contemporary art, Cincinnati

CAC presentation model

CAC

1998 Zaha Hadid won the competition for the new CAC building.the 85,000-square-foot center for contemporary art will be the first American building designed by Zaha Hadid, and the first American art museum to be designed by a woman.

In contrast to the urban carpet, which is a series of polished, undulated surfaces, the galleries are expressed as if they had been carved from a single block of concrete and were floating over the lobby space.

The south facade forms an undulating, translucent skin, through which passersby see into the life of the center.offices provide the facade with human animation.the east facade is expressed as a sculptural relief.

It provides an imprint, in negative, of the gallery interiors.'there are actually two distinct but complementary facades.the south facade, along sixth street, will integrate itself with the cityby offering an animated and irregularly inhabited skin.we hope to achieve the impression of a collage, offering a strange, layered texture of activity and art in constant flux.at night, the light from the windows could be very beautiful.it could be animated with all kinds of different lighting programs.'

CAC

Science centre, Wolfsburg

Kunstmuseum wolfsburg

In spatial terms, the assignment was to create an organic connection between the public square, the gallery, and the foyer. after the triumph of the static and homogeneous 'white cube' as the ruling concept in the museum presentation of art in the latter half of the twentieth century, the logical next step was to open up the museum and turn it into a multifunctional, dynamic structure, a house of many mansions, with a thousand

doors open to the public.

The Kunstmuseum wolfsburg has risen to this challenge by making its peripheral galleries available for a hybrid function, and by connecting this with the heterogeneity of public space in order to explore a new, complex and dynamic form of urban living. an essential component of the lounge is its Z-scape furniture, designed by hadid for the Italian design brand sawaya & moroni.from 17 march, 2001

kunstmuseum wolfsburg

Science centre wolfsburg

In January 2000, an international jury of architectural experts and representatives of the city of wolfsburg, Germany awarded first prize in the design competition for the wolfsburg science center to the Iraqi architect Zaha hadid.

A virtual ice floe, an alien spacecraft the future science center, which will keep its visitors informed on all the latest advances in science and technology, has the look of a mysterious object.

With its low silhouette, the building hugs the shape of the irregular, triangular site, which it occupies without distorting it.the traffic routes that connect wolfsburg with the Volkswagen autostadt and the mittelland canal flow through the building. external and internal spaces interpenetrate.

Z Scape - Products

GRAPHICS

z-scape project of zaha hadid(this unified block breaking up into segments is characterized by the idea of movement.

Forces and pressures have brought about changes in the character and composition of its parts)numerious architectural projects by zaha hadid( in some cases she reverses the process of articulation of the spaces, starting with its mobileelements or furnishings instead of the building)

Documents

Zaha Hadid