ZAHA HADID

Winter 2011ID103

Presentation by Diana Vichitthavong

Zaha Hadid is an architect who consistently pushes the boundaries of architecture and urban design. Her work experiments with new spatial concepts intensifying existing urban landscapes in the pursuit of a visionary aesthetic that encompasses all fields of design, ranging from urban scale through to products, interiors and furniture.

ZAHA HADIDLondon Based Architectural designerBorn in Baghdad, IraqOctober 31 1950Graduated from the Architectural Association School 1977 (Diploma Prize)Awards2003-Mies van der Rohe Award for contemporary architecture from the European union2004- Pritzker Architecture Prize (architecture highest honour, first woman to ever win that prize)

“Although her body of work is relatively small , she has achieved great acclaim and her energy and ideas show even greater promise for the future” Thomas J. Prizker

Been asked what it’s like to be a female Architect:

“I think it shows that you can actually break through the glass ceiling” Zaha Hadid (Finanical Times)

CAREER•After she graduated she worked with Rem Koolhaas

•Started her own firm in 1980

•Her Ideas were in more of demand than her designs

•She won many competitions but a lot of them were never built

•Despite her influences, was often dismissed as a dreamer, whose work was unrealizable and impractical

•She taught at the Architecture Association

•Almost wanted to give up Architecture after facing a huge rejection for her design for the Cardiff Bay Opera House in Wales.

•Her design was chosen but local opinion ran against it so it was rejected basically because it wasn’t traditional enough. (1994)

•She has been known as DIVA and difficult to work with at times, but people who admire her would praise her for her personal style.

WOULD THEY CALL ME A

DIVAIF I WERE A GUY?

ARCHITECTURAL STYLEDECONSTRCTIVISM MOVEMENT

Deconstructivism, or Deconstruction, is an approach to building design that attempts to view architecture in bits and pieces. The basic elements of architecture are dismantled. Deconstructivist buildings may seem to

have no visual logic. They may appear to be made up of unrelated, disharmonious abstract forms. Deconstructive ideas are borrowed from

the French philosopher Jacques Derrida

"I'm trying to discover - invent, I suppose - an architecture, and forms of urban planning, that do something of the same thing in a contemporary way. I started out trying to create buildings that would sparkle like isolated jewels; now I want them to connect, to form a new kind of landscape, to flow together with contemporary cities and the lives of their peoples.“ - Zaha Hadid

Philosophy

Through SketchingShe lets the movement of the hand determine the formAnd is trying not draw something pre figured.

VITRA FIRE STATION

1993 she completed what became her first signature project in Germany for the Vitra Furniture Compnany. The angular building is now a museum.

“SINCE THERE ARE 360 DEGREES, SHE SEES NO REASON TO RESTRICT HERSELF TO JUST ONE”

CENTRE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART

Professional breakthrough came in 2003 with the successful construction of her challenging design for the museum in Cincinnati, Ohio.

This was her first building in the United States.

Which made her become known internationally.

Karl Lagerfeld, Creative Director for Chanel, personally sought Zaha for her vision and sense of style.

CHANEL MOIBLE ART PAVILLION

Location: Hong Kong, Tokyo, New York, Paris

Materials: Fibre Re-inforced Plastic, Structural Steel

•Chanel Pavilion is a celebration of the iconic work of Chanel•the steel structure has been designed to be built in under one week, which is essential for an ephemeral pavilion.

1. ABU DHABI PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE-Dhabi2. BEETHOVEN CONCERT HALL- Germany3. JS BASH CHAMBER MUSIC HALL- UK4. RABAT GRAND THEATHRE- Morocco

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1. Limited Edition LACOSTE shoe (2009)2. Louis Vittion ICONE BAG (2006)3. Skein Sleeve Bracelet (2009)4. Zcar II (2008)

Product designs

1977 Graduation Project, a hotel on London’s Hungerford bridge was calledMALEVICH’S TECTONIKAfter the suprematist Kasimir Malevich who wrote in 1928:“we can only perceive space when we break free from the earth, when the point of support disappears.”

Zaha Hadid’s architecture follows suit, creating a landscape which metaphorically, and perhaps, one day literally..seem to take off.

Sometimes been compared to Frank Lloyd Wright for her futuristic designs and her visionary rethinking of the relationship between humans and buildings

Zaha Hadid has defined a radically new approach to architecture by creating buildings with multiple perspective points and fragmented geometry to evoke the chaos of modern life.

www.zaha-hadid.com

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