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.
Zaha Hadid………………
 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).
Zaha Hadid………………
 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
city
by 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 mobile
elements or furnishings instead
of the building)