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| 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.”
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| 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.
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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| 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.
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| 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).
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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.
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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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