Zaha Hadid portrait by Alberto Heras. |
Exhibition
dates: 27th June – 27th September, 2012
Exhibition
location: Nikolaevsky Hall, the Winter Palace
The
first retrospective exhibition of her work in Russia, Zaha Hadid at The State
Hermitage Museum provides unprecedented insight into the work of Zaha Hadid in
a mid-career retrospective highlighting her exploration of the Russian
Avant-garde at the beginning of her career, and the continuing influence of its
core principles on her work today.
The
exhibition, in the historic Nicolaevsky Hall of the Winter Palace, showcases
many of the seminal paintings, drawings, models and design objects of Hadid’s
forty-year repertoire; conveying the ingenuity and dynamism of her
architectural projects in variety of media including film, photography and
installations.
In
2004, Hadid was awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize in the theatre of the
State Hermitage Museum. Accepting the prize, Hadid stated, “The spirit of adventure
to embrace the new and the incredible belief in the power of invention
attracted me to the Russian Avant-garde. I realized how Modern architecture
built upon the break-through achieved by abstract art as the conquest of a
previously unimaginable realm of creative freedom. The idea that space itself
might be warped and distorted to gain in dynamism and complexity without losing
its coherence and continuity.”
Zaha Hadid, 2007, Nordpark Cable Railway, Photo:
Werner Huthmacher. |
With
its far-reaching experimentation, Hadid directly engaged with the work of the
Russian Avant-garde early in her career, developing an artistic inventiveness
that transcends the context of the Russian social experiment and continues a
narrative of a new spatial perception.
The
exhibition outlines the pioneering research that permeates the architect’s
career. The Peak Club in Hong Kong (unrealized, 1982-83) represents an early
manifestation of her exploration of Kazimir Malevich’s compositional techniques
of fragmentation and layering. Further projects include the Rosenthal Centre
for Contemporary Art in Cincinnati (completed, 2003), Phaeno Science Centre in
Wolfsburg (completed, 2005), BMW Central Building in Leipzig (completed, 2005),
MAXXI: Museum of XXI Century Art in Rome (completed, 2010), London Aquatics
Centre (completed, 2011) and Heydar Aliyev Center in Baku (completed, 2012)
continue Hadid’s ongoing research towards a new architecture that addresses the
increased complexities and dynamism of our future.
Zaha
Hadid, 2013, Heydar Aliyev Centre Baku, Photo: Hufton+Crow.
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Built
on the site of an old Soviet tank factory, the centre in Baku dissolves the
conventional differentiation between architecture and city, offering welcoming
porosity in place of segregated fortification.
“Hadid
championed the unconsummated work of the Suprematists. She reengaged the debate
and set out to build their revolution,” explains critic Joseph Giovannini. “The
Baku center represents a new era in architecture. If a culture can be
extrapolated from the architectural posture represented by the Heydar Aliyev
Center, it would be freer and more spirited, and applied with a light touch as
well as principled discipline. The center, an embodiment of an enlightened philosophical
framework, is poetic, compelling, and charismatic. Its open forms promise to
help open Azeri culture by an act of attraction rather than imposition. Hadid
has designed and crafted an object lesson and a parable. Azerbaijan
commissioned a building, and Hadid met the program. But she also read between
the lines and exceeded the brief by delivering a futuristic vision and
aspirational ideal.”
Zaha
Hadid, 2013, Heydar Aliyev Centre Baku, Photo: Helene Binet.
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As
the exhibition explores the architect’s forty-year career, we see that, far
beyond simply continuing the unfinished project of Modernism and the unfettered
spirit of the Avant-garde, Hadid has transcended these ideas, creating an
entirely new spatial paradigm; an architecture of the future.
Zaha
Hadid at The State Hermitage Museum is organized in cooperation with Zaha Hadid
Architects as part of Hermitage 20/21 launched in 2007 to collect, exhibit and
study the art of the 20th and 21st centuries.
The
exhibition is curated by Ksenia Malich, Curator of Contemporary Art Department,
The State Hermitage Museum, and Patrik Schumacher, Zaha Hadid Architects. A
fully illustrated catalogue will accompany the exhibition (Fontanka Publishing
House, London, 2015), containing an extensive interview with Ms. Hadid, as well
as an essay by Patrik Schumacher.
Zaha
Hadid, 2014, DDP Seoul, Photo: Virgile Simon Bertrand.
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ZAHA HADID BIOGRAPHY
Zaha
Hadid, founder of Zaha Hadid Architects, was awarded the Pritzker Architecture
Prize (considered the Nobel Prize of architecture) in 2004 and is
internationally known for her built, theoretical and academic work. Each of her
projects builds on over thirty years of exploration and research in the
interrelated fields of urbanism, architecture and design.
Born
in Baghdad, Iraq in 1950, Hadid studied mathematics at the American University
of Beirut before moving to London in 1972 to attend the Architectural
Association (AA) School where she was awarded the Diploma Prize in 1977. Hadid
founded Zaha Hadid Architects in 1979 and completed her first building, the
Vitra Fire Station, Germany in 1993.
Zaha Hadid, 2014, Innovation Tower at Hong Kong
Polytechnic University, Photo: Virgile Simon Bertrand. |
Hadid
taught at the AA School until 1987 and has since held numerous chairs and guest
professorships at universities around the world including Columbia, Harvard and
Yale. She is currently a professor at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna.
Working
with senior office partner, Patrik Schumacher, Hadid’s interest lies in the
rigorous interface between architecture, urbanism, landscape and geology as her
practice integrates natural topography and human-made systems, leading to
innovation with new technologies.
The
MAXXI: Italian National Museum of 21st Century Arts in Rome, the London
Aquatics Centre for the 2012 Olympic Games, and the Heydar Aliyev Centre in
Baku are built manifestos of Hadid’s quest for complex, fluid space. Previous
seminal buildings such as the Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art in
Cincinnati and the Guangzhou Opera House in China have also been hailed as
architecture that transforms our ideas of the future with new spatial concepts
and dynamic, visionary forms.
Zaha Hadid, 2010, MAXXI Museum Rome, Photo: Iwan Baan. |
Zaha
Hadid Architects continues to be a global leader in pioneering research and
design investigation. Collaborations with corporations that lead their
industries have furthered the practice’s diversity and knowledge, whilst the
application of advanced design, construction and material technologies aids the
creation innovative projects where concepts of seamless spatial flow are made
real.
The
practice recently completed the Investcorp Building for Oxford University’s
Middle East Centre at St Antony’s College and is currently working on a
diversity of projects worldwide including the New National Stadium for the
Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, the Sleuk Rith Institute in Phnom Penh, Cambodia and
520 West 28th Street in New York. Zaha Hadid Architects’ portfolio also
includes cultural, corporate, academic, sporting and infrastructure projects
across Asia, the Middle East, Europe and the Americas, in addition to national
institutions such as the Central Bank of Iraq and the Grand Theatre de Rabat.
Zaha
Hadid’s work of the past 30 years was the subject of critically-acclaimed
exhibitions at New York’s Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in 2006, London’s Design
Museum in 2007, the Palazzo della Ragione, Padua, Italy in 2009, the
Philadelphia Museum of Art in 2011 and the DAC Copenhagen in 2013. Her recently
completed projects include the Innovation Tower at Hong Kong Polytechnic
University (2014), Dongdaemun Design Plaza in Seoul (2014), Heydar Aliyev
Centre in Baku (2013), Serpentine Sackler Gallery in London (2013), Library
& Learning Centre in Vienna (2013), Eli & Edythe Broad Art Museum in Michigan
(2012), Galaxy SOHO in Beijing (2012), Pierresvives Library and Archive in
Montpellier (2012), CMA CGM Head Office Tower in Marseille (2011), London
Aquatics Centre (2011), Riverside Museum in Glasgow (2011), Guangzhou Opera
House (2010), Sheikh Zayed Bridge in Abu Dhabi (2010) and MAXXI Museum in Rome
(2010).
Zaha
Hadid, 2013, Zephyr Sofa, Photo: Jacopo Spilimbergo.
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Hadid’s
outstanding contribution to the architectural profession continues to be
acknowledged by the world’s most respected institutions including the Forbes
List of the ‘World’s Most Powerful Women’ and the Japan Art Association
presenting her with the ‘Praemium Imperiale’. In 2010 and 2011, her designs
were awarded the Stirling Prize, one of architecture’s highest accolades, by
the Royal Institute of British Architects. Other awards include UNESCO naming
Hadid as an ‘Artist for Peace’, the Republic of France honouring Hadid with the
‘Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres’, TIME magazine included her in
their list of the ‘100 Most Influential People in the World’ and in 2012, Zaha
Hadid was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen
Elizabeth II.
Zaha
Hadid, 2014, Crystal Architecture Vase for Lalique.
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ZAHA HADID AWARDS
59
Eaton Place, London -Gold Medal Architectural Design, British Architecture,
1982
Honourable
Member of the Bund Deutscher Architekten, 1998
Honourable
Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, 2000
Honorary
Fellowship of the American Institute of Architects, 2000
Mind
Zone, Millennium Dome, London - RIBA Awards 2000
Car
Park and Terminus Hoenheim North, Strasbourg - Equerre d'Argent special
mention, 2001
Car
Park and Terminus Hoenheim North, Strasbourg - AIA UK Chapter Award, 2002
One-north
Master Plan, Singapore - AIA UK Chapter Honourable Mention, 2002
Car
Park and Terminus Hoenheim North, Strasbourg - Red Dot Award, 2002
Bergisel
Ski-Jump, Innsbruck - Austrian State Architecture Prize, 2002
Bergisel
Ski-Jump, Innsbruck -Tyrolean Architecture Award, 2002
Commander
of the British Empire, CBE, 2002
Car
Park and Terminus Hoenheim North, Strasbourg -Mies van der Rohe Award, 2003
Architect
of the year 2004 - Blueprint Award
Rosenthal
Centre for Contemporary Art, Cincinnati - RIBA Worldwide Award, 2004
Zaha
Hadid, Laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, 2004
London
Architect of the year, London Architectural Biennale, 2004
Honorary
Fellow of Columbia University, New York City, 2005 Member of the Royal Academy
of Arts, London, 2005
RIBA
Medal, European Commercial Building of the Year (BMW Central Building) 2005
Deutsche
Architektur Prize, Building of the Year (BMW Central Building) 2005
Finalist
for the RIBA Stirling Prize (BMW Central Building) 2005
Gold
Medal for Design, International Olympic Committee (Bergisel Ski Jump) 2005
Austrian
Decoration of Science and Art, Commissions of Science and Art, Austria, 2005
Designer
of the Year, Design 05 Art Basel Miami, 2005
AIA
UK Chapter Award (Phaeno Science Center) 2006
Honorary
Doctorate, Yale University, USA, 2006
RIBA
Medal, European Cultural Building of the Year (Phaeno Science Center) 2006
Honorary
Doctorate, American University of Beirut, 2006
Finalist
for the RIBA Stirling Prize (Phaeno Science Center) 2006
RIBA
Jencks Award, 2006
Academician,
The International Academy of Architecture, 2006
Leading
European Architects Forum (LEAF) Award (Phaeno Science Center) 2006
AIA
UK Chapter Award for Excellence (Maggie’s Centre Fife) 2007
Finalist
for the Mies van der Rohe Award for European Architecture (Phaeno Science
Center) 2007
Thomas
Jefferson Foundation Medal in Architecture, USA, 2007
Scottish
Design Awards, Best Public Building Award (Maggie’s Centre, Fife) 2007
London
Design Medal, Outstanding Contribution for Design, 2007
Travel
& Leisure Award, USA (Nordpark Cable Railway), 2007
Maison
& Objet Designer of the Year, 2008
Dedalo
Minosse International Prize for Commissioning a Building (BMW Central Building)
2008
Honorary
Degree from The Pratt Institute, New York City, 2008
Spirit
of Achievement Award, New York City, 2008
Cityscape
Architectural Award, Dubai (Signature Towers), 2008
Chicago
Athenaeum Award, Chicago (Maggie’s Centre, Fife) 2008
RIBA
European Award, UK (Nordpark Cable Railway) 2008
Architektur
und Tirol, Austria (Nordpark Cable Railway) 2008
World
Architecture Festival Transport Category, Barcelona, (Nordpark Cable Railway)
2008
RIBA
Stirling Prize Nomination (Nordpark Cable Railway) 2008
Conde’
Nast Innovation&Design Award, London (Zaragoza Bridge Pavilion) 2009
Architectural
Digest Spain Editor’s Award, Madrid, 2009
Praemium
Imperiale, The Japanese Art Association, Tokyo, 2009
DDI
Awards “Neil Barrett Flagship Store, Tokyo” 2009
The
Sunday Times Fast-track 100, 2009
The
Times ’50 People of the Decade’, 2009
Time
Magazine’s “The World’s100 Most Influential People” 2010
UNESCO
Artist for Peace, Paris, 2010
RIBA
Stirling Prize (MAXXI, National Museum of XXI Century Arts) 2010
Structural
Steel Design Awards, Glasgow Riverside Museum of Transport, 2010
Structural
Steel Design Awards, London Aquatics Centre, 2010
Best
Small Project Award, SEAOI, Burnham Pavilion, 2010
The
Sunday Times ‘100 Top International Companies’ 2010
Innovation
& Design Awards, Conde Nast, MAXXI Museum, 2010
The
New Statesman ’50 People Who Matter 2010’, Zaha Hadid, 2010
Woman
of the Year Outstanding Achivement Award, 2010
Commandeur
de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, 2010
WAF
World Building of the Year (MAXXI, National Museum of XXI Century Arts) 2010
Visionary
of the Year, Harper’s Bazaar, 2010
Conde’
Nast Innovation & Design Award, London (MAXXI, National Museum of XXI
Century Arts) 2010
American
Institute of Architects UK Chapter Award, (Guangzhou Opera House) 2011
RIBA
European Award 2011 (Evelyn Grace Academy)
RIBA
Stirling Prize 2011 (Evelyn Grace Academy)
RIBA
Award 2011 (Guangzhou Opera House)
Philadelphia
Museum of Art, Collab Design Excellence Award 2011: Zaha Hadid
Honourary
Doctorate from the University of the Arts, London: Zaha Hadid, 2011
Foreign
Policy Magazine “Top 100 Global Thinkers of 2011” : Zaha Hadid, 2011
Arabian
Business Magazine “The World’s 50 Most Powerful Arabs’ : Zaha Hadid, 2011
Newsweek
Magazine ‘150 Women Who Shake The World’: Zaha Hadid, 2011
Huffington
Post Game Changer 2011: Zaha Hadid
First
Prize, Outstanding Engineering Design Excellence in China (Guangzhou Opera
House) 2011
International
Road Federation, Global Road Achievement Award for Design (Sheikh Zayed Bridge)
2012
Travel
& Leisure Award, Berlin (Sheikh Zayed Bridge) 2012
Jane
Drew Prize ‘Outstanding contribution to the status of women in architecture’
2012
The
Sunday Times ‘Makers & Shakers 1962-2012’
Gulf
Business Magazine, World’s Most Influential Arabs for 2012
European
Museum Academy Micheletti Award 2012 (Riverside Museum)
The
Design Week Awards 2012 (Roca London Gallery)
Dame
Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) 2012 (Zaha Hadid)
Architectural
Record Magazine China Award, Best Public Project 2012 (Guangzhou Opera House)
Women of the Year 2012, Glamour Magazine (Zaha Hadid)
Honorary
President of the FT/Citi Ingenuity Awards Urban Ideas in Action programme
judging committee (Zaha Hadid)
Best
Retail Space, FX International Interior Design Awards 2012 (Roca London Gallery)
Best
of Year Awards 2012, Interior Design 'Beauty / Spa / Fitness' (London Aquatics
Centre)
DLD2013
‘The Aenne Burda Award for Creative Leadership’ (Zaha Hadid)
Veuve
Clicquot 'Businesswoman of the Year' 2013 (Zaha Hadid)
European
Museum of the Year 2013 (Riverside Museum) BBC Women’s Hour ‘Power 100’ 2013
(Zaha Hadid)
Arabian
Business ‘100 Most Powerful Arab Women 2013’ (Zaha Hadid ranked number 4) Best
European Plant 2013, (BMW Leipzig)
Issam
M. Fares Award for Excellence 2013 (Zaha Hadid)
Architizer
A+ Award, 2014 (Heydar Aliyev Center, Baku)
Arison
Award by The National Young Arts Foundation 2014 (Zaha Hadid)
Innovative
Design in Engineering & Architecture with Structural Steel 2014 (Broad Art
Museum) Structural Excellence Awards HK, Commendation of Merit 2014 (Jockey
Club Innovation Tower)
McKim
Medal American Academy in Rome 2014 (Zaha Hadid) RIBA National Award 2014
(London Aquatics Centre)
RIBA
EU Award 2014 (Library & Learning Centre, Vienna)
CTBUH
2014 Best Tall Buildings Awards Finalist (JCIT & Wangjing Soho)
Design
Museum: Design of the Year Award 2014 (Heyder Aliyev Center)
New
London Award 2014 (London Aquatics Centre)
Restaurant
& Bar Designs Award 2014 (The Magazine Restaurant)
British
Construction Industry Award 2014 (London Aquatics Centre)
Honorary
Degree of Doctor of Literature of the University of London (Zaha Hadid)
ACADIA
Lifetime Achievement Award 2014 (Zaha Hadid)
Elle
Decoration British Design 2014 Award (Serpentine Sackler Gallery)
Mies
van der Rohe Award Nomination 2014 (London Aquatics Centre) Mies van der Rohe
Award Nomination 2014 (Library & Learning Centre, Vienna)
Best
Public Space Award CIDA (China) 2014 (Galaxy SOHO, Beijing) Architectural
Society of China CASC Silver Award 2014 (Galaxy SOHO, Beijing) Honorary Key to
the City of Miami by Mayor Tomas Regalado 2014 (Zaha Hadid)
London
Building Excellence Award 2015 (Serpentine Sackler Gallery)
AJ
120 International Practice of the Year 2015 (Zaha Hadid Architects)
Großes
Goldenes Ehrenzeichen für Verdienste um die Republik Österreich (Gold Medal of
Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria) 2015 (Zaha Hadid
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