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Zaha Hadid before MAXXI Museum in Rome
Zaha Hadid has built. She nearly went down in history as a tragic footnote a brilliant architect who has never built. Never built it has an office building on the Kurfürstendamm in Berlin, the amusement park in Hong Kong, the opera for Cardiff – multiply the Iraqi had won European Union passport holders in tendering the first prize, multiply their designs were the decision makers too expensive, too bold, too extravagant. Perhaps to Arabic. Or to female.
But Zaha Hadid has built.
Legend has it that her first work in 1993 could occur in Weil am Rhein. Archaic yet floating, interleaved, yet functionally designed Hadid for the furniture factory Vitra fire station, the only points today as empty sculpture in itself. An aesthetic big bang, the Zaha Hadid with a blow to the company – if not at the top – catapulted the few architects whose names have become global brands.
In fact, is the first planned by Hadid building since 1987 in Berlin’s Kreuzberg district, it is a rather little spectacular House, allegedly clipped by building codes down to size – and therefore deleted from the later star architect from the working directory as a youthful indiscretion , And a joke compared to the monumental works that today to visit for Moscow to Abu Dhabi from Baku to Cincinnati, from Rome to London once to enter time and admire always are.
Your Iraqi homeland Hadid had left early and studied at the US University of Beirut mathematics, before turning to London in the architecture. At the Architectural Association School (AAA) she made her teacher attention with their on Russian Suprematist Kazimir Malevich trained eccentricities. Their designs worked sometimes as walkable exploded, with tilting walls, dancing columns and splintering roofs.
A vanguard that colleagues like Frank Gehry, Daniel Libeskind and Peter Eisenman much appreciated – but, unlike Gehry, Libeskind or Eisenman, long found no builders. As Zaha Hadid finally built, there was no holding back. In Germany alone, an important business area, tell, among them “Phaeno” in wolf castle or the BMW factory in Leipzig from their genius.
The tenacity and the aplomb with which an Arab woman had to prevail in a white and male dominated environment, not only paid off – they were her trademark. As Hadid in 2004 became the first woman and youngest candidate awarded the Pritzker Prize, considered the Nobel Prize of architecture, it was described by the jury with Oscar Niemeyer, the similarly fearless creator of sensual curves of Brasilia. Frank Gehry called them “extraordinary force of nature”.Since Hadid had already been removed from Futurism and Cubism and turned baroque solitaires who wanted to overwhelm by sheer Flamboyanz. In Abu Dhabi, Baku or Beijing they built dazzling “signature buildings” for the application awareness of their clients, but no interest in architectural environment, cultural heritage, human urban planning and environmental protection – all issues that are of a new generation of architectural avant-garde at heart.
A star of such magnitude, of course also threw some shade. Hadid, at the height of her career, was also a gigantically inflated Gestrigkeit, supported by the reinforced concrete on the computer calculated extravagance – a nightmare for structural engineers, impractical to unavailability, as their Olympic Swimming Stadium in London or museums, at the arched walls to can attach a picture.
My companion and theoretical Stooges Patrick Schumacher called this style “parametricism” and ennobled the digital construction in swirls and folds the final style, would lead to the transitional periods as deconstructionism and postmodernism. The liquid as Hegemonialstil postmodernism. And the building as a world unto itself.
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Design for the World Cup stadium in Qatar
Your design for a World Cup stadium in Qatar reminded some observers of a vagina. But this actually sympathetic because possibly subversive association pointed Hadid as indignantly as all responsibility for the conditions in the local construction sites: “This is not my job as an architect.” The opportunity as “Queen of architecture” to speak out has, let them pass.
A comparison with the works of Elezabeth Diller, Nathalie de Vries or Kazuyo Sejima shows how antiquated their architecture was basically – and how aggressively they knew how to put the flamboyant creator of a decidedly “female construction” in scene. A Montserrat Caballé architecture. When she was a role model, a pioneer, then a not unproblematic. In interviews she complained cope, women would get in their profession is not the same opportunities as men -. But only one third of its own salaried architects were female
Last employed her office 400 employees, the approximately parallel to 95 projects worked around the world, while the champion besides still furniture, sets for the Pet shop Boys or a love nest designed, which wanted to give the oligarch Vladi Slam Doronin his girlfriend Naomi Campbell. The highlight of her amazing career could have been the apex. Your planning for a Olympic Stadium in Tokyo was at after intense criticism and 35,000 signatures against this “galactic helmet” tilted – not only for cost reasons.
The plan has a new parliament for Baghdad and a building for the central bank on the banks of the Tigris. Syria also would have liked to help “as an Arab” build, as she applied a new building of the Defense Ministry in Damascus to 2007 as well.
“I am not a politician,” once she said. “I’m not agitprop artist When I say I to build not determine locations, then there are many other places where I also did not build would. I would not stay anywhere longer do anything. I just would not build “.
So built Zaha Hadid.
Only a house for herself, she did not want to build, as she once said: “I’m hardly ever home”
Completely surprisingly Zaha Hadid died Nunan a heart attack in a hospital in Miami.. She was 65 years old.
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