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Zaha Hadid

Zaha Hadid is one of the most distinctive

creative talents of her generation.

born in baghdad in 1950, she irst

came to London to study architecture in

1972, and this year celebrates 30 years

in practice. She runs an ofice of 250

people, working on projects that range

in scale from urban masterplans in

Singapore and Istanbul, to domestic

objects and furniture.

In the 1980s Hadid attracted

international attention for her unbuilt

projects that remained on paper, but

nevertheless transformed expectations

of what architecture could be. recently

completed designs, including the

Phaeno Science Center in Wolfsburg,

the bmW Central building in Leipzig and

the rosenthal Center for Contemporary

Art in Cincinnati, demonstrate Hadid’s

commitment to building. She is currently

working on a series of projects that will

serve as deining landmarks in such

disparate settings as Dubai, rome

and Guangzhou.

As well as large-scale, complex

schemes, she has also realised

gently-scaled, modest projects such as

a pavilion for the maggie’s Centre cancer

care movement on a hospital campus in

Kirkcaldy, Scotland.

Phaeno Science Center, Wolfsburg, Germany, 2000–05

Zaha Hadid

First Floor Gallery

1 London

2 unbuilt work

3 built work

Second Floor Gallery

4 Work in progress

5 objects and furniture

First Floor Gallery

London

London was in the depths of recession

when Hadid arrived as a student in

the 1970s. Its architects were

experiencing both a shortage of work

and a loss of conidence. modernism,

as pioneered by Le Corbusier and mies

van der rohe in the 1930s, looked dead

as the utopias of the 1960s soured.

the Architectural Association, where

Hadid studied from 1972 to 1977,

provided a unique centre for debate

about new directions in design. under

Alvin boyarsky’s leadership it attracted

radical thinkers and practitioners of

every ideological persuasion. At one

time, bernard tschumi, rem Koolhaas,

Leon Krier and brian Anson were all

on the teaching staff. Classicists,

community activists, conservationists

and radical modernists all had a

platform. the experience clearly had

a profound effect on Hadid.

the school provided an environment

in which Hadid could explore one of

the twentieth century’s great art

movements, russian Constructivism.

this revolutionary period was the point

of departure for her breakthrough

project – the winning design for

the Peak – an apartment complex and

club overlooking the city of Hong Kong.

the design rejected the current

architectural style of Post-modernism

that applied decorative classical

columns and cosmetic stone façades to

every new project. Although never built,

the extraordinarily dynamic paintings

that she used to convey the essence

of the design commanded worldwide

attention and continue to shape Hadid’s

thinking today.

the Peak, Hong Kong, China, 1982–83.

Painting

the Peak, Hong Kong, China, 1982–83. Painting

First Floor Gallery

unbuilt work

A series of architectural competitions

were the focus for a huge outpouring

of design energy in the early part of

Hadid’s career. these powerful visions

persuaded rolf Felhbaum, the owner

of the furniture manufacturer vitra,

to commission Hadid’s irst realised

project, a ire station on the company’s

factory complex at Weil am rhein in

Germany. It was followed by a series of

unrealised designs, including the Cardiff

bay opera House (1994-96), one of the

great ‘might have beens’ of architecture

in britain. Hadid belonged to a

generation familiar with the idea of

architecture as a speculative, theoretical

activity in which design drawings were

as important as building. the delay

between conceiving the designs that

made her reputation, and building them,

made it inevitable that Hadid would be

represented as being more concerned

with theory than practice. these

schemes, however, gave her the

opportunity to develop ideas and

working methods that would form

the basis of new work.

Zollhof 3 media Park, Düsseldorf, Germany, 1989-93. Painting

‘the World (89 Degrees)’, 1983. Painting

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