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Venice exhibition celebrates the breadth of Zaha Hadid’s creativity
eventually became the diagram for MAXXI Museum.” The exhibition juxtaposes these early
designs with projects such as the BMW Central Building in Leipzig (completed 2005) within a landscape of models that integrates project typologies, formal composition, geography and chronology. Also featured in the show are Helene
Binet’s photographs, capturing the integrity and materiality of Hadid’s projects from the Vitra Fire Station in 1992 until the present with Salerno Maritime Terminal in Italy. All of Zaha Hadid Architects works in
‘Bringing together Hadid’s built, under- construction, in development and unrealised designs the exhibition captures the pioneering research and investigation that instigates and defines Zaha Hadid Architects’ work’
Staged to coincide with this year’s Venice Architectural Biennale by Italian arts and crafts organisation Fondazione Berengo, an exhibition in Venice is celebrating Zaha Hadid’s four-decade career in architecture and design. Held at the 16th century Palazzo
Franchetti on the Grand Canal, Venice, Italy until 27 November 2016, the exhibition features paintings, drawings and models from Hadid’s repertoire, conveying the ingenuity and dynamism of her architectural projects in a variety of media including photography and film. Bringing together Hadid’s built,
under-construction, in development and unrealised designs the exhibition captures the pioneering research and investigation that instigates and defines Zaha Hadid Architects’ work. Early works displayed include
Malevich’s Tektonic, Hadid’s fourth-year project bridging the River Thames undertaken at
the Architectural
Association School in London. Also showcased are unrealised works including the competition winning Peak Club, Hong Kong, Hafenstrasse, Hamburg, Grand Buildings, Trafalgar Square, Victoria City master-plan for
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Berlin and Cardiff Bay Opera House. Three projects are singled out in the
exhibition as milestones in Hadid’s career; Zaha Hadid Architects’ first com- pleted project the Vitra Fire Station finished in 1993 in Weil am Rhein, Germany; the Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art in Cincinnati (com- pleted 2003), which contributed to Zaha Hadid being awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2004; finally the MAXXI Museum of 21st Century Arts in Rome (completed 2009). The latter in particular implemented the practice’s wide-ranging experimentation with the rapid advancements in computer-aided design. Hadid described how paintings
formed a key part of her process: “My paintings really evolved 30 years ago because I thought the architectural drawings required a much greater degree of distortion and fragmentation to assist our research. It might take 10 years for a 2D sketch to evolve into a workable space, and then into a realised building. And these are the journeys that I think are very exciting, as they are not predictable. For example, I used to produce hatched lines on my drawings. These became striated models, which
progress will be exhibited, including projects to be completed this year including the Port House in Antwerp, The King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Centre (KAPSARC) in Riyadh and The Mathematics Gallery at London’s Science Museum will open in December. Also included in the exhibition are models, relief studies and visualisations of a residential building on the High Line in New York that will complete in early 2017. Through detailed exploration of
two projects currently under construc- tion, the also shows how the practice’s in-house computation and design research team (CODE) harnesses inter- disciplinary collaboration between architects, engineers and emerging digital manufacturing methods for a collective research culture. Adriano Berengo, president of
Fondazione Berengo said, “Visitors to the exhibition will have a greater under- standing of Zaha Hadid’s pioneering vision that redefined architecture and design for the 21st century and captured imaginations across the globe.” In 2011, Zaha Hadid stated, “I know
from my experience that without research and experimentation not much can be discovered. You think you’re going to find out one thing, but you actually discover something else; you dis- cover much more than you bargain for.”
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