Zaha Hadid's expected exhibition in Mexico
Tomorrow opens at the University Museum of Contemporary Art (MUAC) a very special exhibition. It is "design as a second nature" the first exhibition in Latin America of the projects of the Anglo-Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid (1950-2016).
To appoint Zaha Hadid is to refer to a watershed of the world architecture. His work was always based on breaking down schemes established within contemporary architecture through occupying the space with structures and forms based on lines and curves, achieving designs with great fluency. He also broke another type of scheme as the first woman to win the Pritzker prize and the first woman alone to win the RIBA Prize gold medal in the 167 years of History of the prestigious award, thus demonstrating the ability of the feminine genre to stand out in U Na profession predominantly male.
"I hope they don't give me the prize because I'm a woman, but because of my work. But I do hope that this award will serve to help women break the glass ceiling in architecture, to access better places in this profession. " I would comment on that.
However, as the years passed, the consistency of his work allows us to affirm that these recognitions were not granted simply because they were the worthy female representative of a generation of architects, but because they had "a powerful vision, full of originality , which changes the way you experiment with space. In its fragmented geometry and fluid mobility, Hadid does more than create an abstract and dynamic beauty; This is the substance of a work that explores and expresses the world in which we live "as Ada Louise Huxtable, a Pritzker jury, would say. Zaha Hadid's architecture with its fluid forms and fragmented geometry evokes the chaos and flow that characterize modern life.
The exhibition, through mock-ups, audiovisual materials, paintings and photographs, addresses the creative process of its practice and makes evident the importance and complexity of the design as an articulator of constructive forms and processes. In its eagerness to experiment, the laboratory ZHCode Research has made notable research on membranes and studies of curves and shells, which are also part of the exhibition. Another interesting aspect is the collaboration of the Laboratory with the Faculty of Architecture of the UNAM, since they elaborated a piece ex Professo to be exhibited in the patio of the MUAC.
To say of the organizers, beyond the different typologies of buildings, they wanted to show the synergies of work of ZHA, their proposals to inhabit a common world and the bond of nature with the creative processes that configure an organic design for the Future.
No doubt a sample that will be a tribute to the work of this important figure of world architecture.
The exhibition will be inaugurated at 13:00 hours on the 20th of October and remains until March 3, 2019 in the MUAC located in Av. Insurgentes Sur 3000, Col. National Autonomous University of Mexico, Coyoacan, C.P. 4510, Mexico, Mexico City. Timetables: Wednesday, Friday and Sunday, 10:00-18:00 hrs; Thursday and Saturday, 12:00-20:00 hrs.