Zaha Hadid, designer of the year, Maison & Objet
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Crest Chaise by Zaha Hadid at Imperative Design
Crest Chaise by Zaha Hadid at Imperative Design
‘Imperative Design’ at Barbara Davis gallery
Located in Houston, Texas, Barbara Davis gallery is currently showing ‘Imperative Design’ a new exhibit curated by
Lauren Rottet. the show began on January 26 and features works by Zaha Hadid, Ross Lovegrove, Mark Holmes,
Arik Levy, Greg Lynn, David Mocarski and Lauren Rottet. The works chosen for this show demonstrate ‘the
inevitability and importance of reaching a point today in which everyone has access to modern furnishings and
the like’ as rottet explains. The exhibit will run until March 1st
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via designboom
B&B and Zaha Hadid: Moon System
Moon System Black
Moon System Gold
Architect Zaha Hadid designed this sofa for B&B Italia.
B&B ITALIA PROFILE
B&B Italia has been founded in 1966.
It has its headquarter in Novedrate in the Como province of Italia.
Its offices are in a building designed by Renzo Piano in 1972.
It has turned from a family-run small-scale business into a company with separate divisions for design, manufacturing and sales. The Company has two branches: B&B Italia Home Division and B&B Italia Contract Division.
About Zaha Hadid
Zaha Hadid is an architect who consistently pushes the boundaries of architecture and urban design. Her work ranges from urban scale to interiors and furniture.
Best known for:
– Vitra Fire Station
– Land Formation-One
– Innsbruck Bergisel Ski-Jump
– Strasbourg Tram Station
– Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art in Cincinnati
– BMW Central Building in Leipzig
– Hotel Puerta America (interior) in Madrid
– Ordrupgaard Museum Extension in Copenhagen, and
– Phaeno Science Center in Wolfsburg.
Her central concerns involve a simultaneous engagement in practice, teaching and research. Hadid was born in Bagdad in 1950. She studied architecture at the Architectural Association from 1972 and was awarded the Diploma Prize in 1977. She then became a partner of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, taught at the AA with OMA collaborators Rem Koolhaas and Elia Zenghelis, and later led her own studio at the AA until 1987. Since then she held the Kenzo Tange Chair at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University; the Sullivan Chair at the University of Illinois, School of Architecture, Chicago; guest professorships at the Hochschule fŸr Bildende KŸnste in Hamburg; the Knolton School of Architecture, Ohio and the Masters Studio at Columbia University, New York. In addition, she was made Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Fellow of the American Institute of Architecture and Commander of the British Empire, 2002. She is currently Professor at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, Austria and was the Eero Saarinen Visiting Professor of Architectural Design at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.
See further for an impression of her work this YouTube impression: