A NEW PERSPECTIVE ON MODERN ARCHITECTURE:
ZAHA HADID As T-COD Architecture, this week we would like to tell you about Zaha Hadid, one of the icons of the architecture world. Let's take a look at the life of Zaha Hadid, who brings a new perspective to the concept of modern design with her curvy designs.
WHO IS ZAHA HADID?
Zaha Hadid is a British architect of Iraqi origin who brings a brand new expression to architecture with her deconstructivist architectural approach and buildings with surprising forms. Born on October 31, 1950 in Baghdad, Iraq, Zaha Hadid is the daughter of Mohammad Hadid, who also served as the minister of finance in Iraq, and Wajiha al-Sabunji, an artist from Mosul. He was born into an upper-class family. Her father, a politician advocating secularism and democracy, sent Zaha Hadid to a British boarding school, even though he was a Muslim. After graduating from boarding school, he received a degree in mathematics from the American University of Beirut and then an architecture degree from the Architectural Association in London. Hadid, who worked for a while at the Office For Metropolitan Architecture, where her teacher Rem Koolhaas and Elia Zenghelis, who described her as "an inimitable planet in its own orbit" at her school, and Elia Zenghelis, started her own architecture company, Zaha Hadid, in London, as soon as she became a British citizen in 1980. He founded Architects.
ZAHA HADID WITH ARCHITECTURAL BUILDINGS AND AWARDS
Zaha Hadid, who liberated architectural geometry, was not yet building anything in the 1980s, when postmodernism was on the rise. However, it gave an artistic dimension to the feeling of uncertainty, portraying snapshots of a world that did not yet exist, with its strange and surprising forms that could not be defined as buildings in the traditional sense.
THE PEAK
Zaha Hadid made one of her first designs in 1983 for a competition for the design of a holiday complex known as The Peak in Hong Kong. The project consisted of three horizontal buildings and spatial spaces between buildings. The project, which draws attention with its reinterpretation of the relationship between building and land, could not be implemented even though it was completely constructible in terms of engineering. However, he took an important step in his career when he participated in the Deconstructivist Architecture Exhibition held at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1988 and became one of the seven architects in the exhibition with The Peak Project.
FIRST APPLICATION PROJECT:VITRA FIRE BUILDING
The first application project of Zaha Hadid, who built many extraordinary buildings throughout her career, was the Vitra Fire Station, which she built in 1993. It was Rolf Fehlbaum, the owner of the Vitra furniture company, who gave Hadid the first chance to become an architect. Hadid's first structure, the Vitra Fire Brigade, was built for the company's volunteer fire department in Weil am Rhein, on the Swiss-German border.
CARDIFF BAY OPERA HOUSE
The groundbreaking project in England was the Cardiff Bay Opera House. In his project, which won him selection from 400 participants in an international competition in 1994, he masterfully managed to be suitably monumental for a national institution. At the same time, it has been a design that injects urbanity into many empty lands.
THE MOST IMPORTANT PIECE OF THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION:
GUANGZHOU OPERA HOUSE The Guangzhou Opera House, which was implemented in 2002 as its first project in China, made a significant contribution to the cultural development of the city. Zaha Hadid was inspired by river valleys when designing the structure, which resembles two large rocks shaped against the current and overlooks the Peart River. Described as one of the most important parts of the cultural revolution, the building established a bridge between the city's financial center and cultural structures.
THE FIRST PRITZKER AWARD-WINNING FEMALE ARCHITECT: ZAHA HADID
Zaha Hadid is the first female architect to receive the Pritzker Prize in 2004. It was the Maxxi Art Museum in Rome, which was established in 2010, that brought the RIBA Stirlin award to Zaha Hadid, who has built many extraordinary buildings throughout her career. He designed the Olympic Aquatics Center, which takes its form from the geometry of moving water, for the Summer Olympics held in London in 2012. With striking structures such as the automobile factory he designed for BMW in Leipzig, Germany, the skyscraper complex built in Beijing, and the Heydar Aliyev Center, the cultural complex he built in Baku, Azerbaijan, the walls and roofs are seamless, inside and out, in ground plan and cross-section. He had the opportunity to realize the ideas that merged with each other in such a way. Zaha Hadid, who wants to be remembered only as an architect and not as a female architect or Arab Architect, has had the opportunity to realize many projects that are important for cities and architecture, such as the buildings we mentioned. Zaha Hadid, who had her name written in golden letters in her architectural career, died in Miami due to a heart attack on March 31, 2016.
As T-COD Architecture, we, in our projects, are inspired by Zaha Hadid's unconventional architectural design potential, the buildings she has built, her vision with a highly developed 3-dimensional perception, and with utmost respect for her architectural perspective, we use corporate buildings, youth centers and halls within the scope of architecture. We bring their architecture to life.
