ZAHA HADID

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WHO IS ZAHA??

• DAME ZAHA MOHAMMAD HADID is an IRAQI-BRITISH architect. She received the PRITZKER ARCHITECTURE PRIZE in 2004—the first woman to do so—and the STIRLING PRIZE in 2010 and 2011.

• Her buildings are distinctively NEOFUTURISTIC, characterised by the "powerful, curving forms of her elongated structures" with “MULITPLE PERSPECTIVE points and FRAGMENTED GEOMETRY ”to evoke the chaos of modern life“.

• Going beyond all forms and frames through her works, Zaha Hadid imparts dynamics to her projects by using curved lines.

EARLY LIFE

• Zaha Hadid was born on 31 October 1950 in Baghdad Iraq. She grew up in one of Baghdad's first Bauhaus inspired buildings during an era in which “Modernism connoted glamour and progressive thinking" in the Middle East.

• She read mathematics at the American University of Beirut before moving to study at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London.

TWO OF HER WORKS

•Heydar Aliyev Center

•GUGGENHEIM VILNIUS 

Heydar Aliyev Center 

HOW WAS IT DESIGNED??

• The design of the Heydar Aliyev Center establishes a continuous, fluid relationship between its surrounding plaza and the building’s interior.

• The plaza, as the ground surface; accessible to all as part of baku’s urban fabric, rises to envelop an equally public interior space and define a sequence of event spaces dedicated to the collective celebration of contemporary and traditional Azeri culture.

LOCATION

WHERE AND WHY??

• The Heydar Aliyev Center is a 619,000-square-foot building complex in Bakua, Azerbaijan and noted for its distinctive architecture and flowing, curved style that eschews sharp angles. The center is named for Heyder Aliyev, the president and leader of Soviet-era Azerbaijan

• Construction of the Center’s facility was launched in 2007 and completed on May 10, 2012,  

• The Center houses a conference hall (auditorium), a gallery hall and a museum. The project is intended to play an integral role in the intellectual life of the city.

• Located close to the city center, the site plays a pivotal role in the redevelopment of Baku..

PLAN AND SECTION

CONSTRUCTION

• Metal construction network with an overall lenghth of 90 kilometers was used for the building’s roof covering only. 12 027 pieces of special panels of a very specific shape of its own varying from triangle to trapezoid and from rectangle to parallelogram were used on the Center’s roof,which has an overall coverage 40 000 square meters

• The whole complex encompasses the main building, underground parking and adjacent landscape area. The landscape area includes 2 decorative pools and an artificial lake.

EXTERIOR

• The Heydar Aliyev Museum• The Exhibition Halls. This section occupies 9 floors with

exhibition halls, administrative office, restaurant and a cafeteria.

• The Auditorium. This section of 4 levels embraces 2 multifunctional conference halls,meeting rooms and the media center.

• “ “ Not a single straight line was used in the Center’s Not a single straight line was used in the Center’s design.”design.”

• The overall shape of the building resembles a wave-like ascension from the ground towards the sky followed by gradual descent down to the earth. This is not only a tribute to post-modern architecture, but also a portrayal of an eternal cycle.

THREE SECTIONS

INTERIORS

GUGGENHEIM VILNIUS

HOW WAS IT DESIGNED??

• Vilnius Guggenheim Hermitage Museum would have presented exibitions of new media art, parts of the New York City anthology film archive, and Fluxus art

•  The Fluxus art movement flourished in New York during the 1960s, and was led by Lithuanian-born artist Jurgis Mačiūnas.

•  Another important part of the exhibition would have been a collection of works by Lithuanian avant-garde film maker Jonas Mekas.

• These works are currently held by the Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Center

LOCATION

WHERE AND WHY??

• Vilnius Guggenheim Hermitage Museum was a proposed art museum in the city of Vilnius the capital of Lithuania.

• On April 8, 2008 an international jury named Zaha Hadid, a British-Iraqi architect, the winner of the international design competition for the museum.[1] 

• The museum was initially scheduled to open in 2011. Later, it was announced, that museum will open in 2013.

• However, the project was postponed due to alleged illegal channeling of funds to the Jonas Mekas Arts Center ……… inquiry was still ongoing

EXTERIOR

INTERIOR

CRITICS

• Hadid’s architectural language has been described as "famously extravagant" with many of her projects sponsored by "dictator states".

•  Rowan Moore described Hadid's Heyder Aliyev Centre  as "not so different from the colossal cultural palaces long beloved of Soviet and similar regimes".

• Architect Sean Griffiths characterised Hadid's work as "an empty vessel that sucks in whatever ideology might be in proximity to it”.

• Art historian Maike Aden criticises in particular the foreclosure of Zaha Hadid's architecture of the MAXXI in Rome towards the public and the urban life that undermines even the most impressive program to open the museum

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