자하하디드 아키텍츠의 실험성과 창의성을 보여주는 MAM 상하이 전시 ‘ZHA Close Up – Work & Research’

'ZHA Close Up – Work & Research' now open, Exhibition at MAM Shanghai | Until 29 August 2021

자하하디드 아키텍츠의 회고전을 감상할 수 있는 기회가 MAM 상하이에서 열린다. 'ZHA Close Up – Work & Research'라는 주제로 오는 8월 29일까지 열리는 전시는 1982년부터 현재까지의 주요 프로젝트의 면모를 엿볼 수 있다.

Zaha Hadid Architects(ZHA) 조형 작업의 타임 라인에 의해 정의된 MAM Shanghai의 'ZHA Close Up'은 전 세계 프로젝트를 통합하는 선구적인 연구 및 상호 연결 관계를 탐구하고 스튜디오가 상상하는 방식을 변화시키는 설계 및 건축 환경에 대한 혁신적인 기술을 자세히 설명한다. 전시회는 지난 40년 동안 로마의 MAXXI 21세기미술관(2010)과 베이징의 Leeza SOHO (2019)의 흐르는 도시 공간에서 자하하디드 건축가의 건물의 변화된 흐름을 살펴본다. 또한 현재 6개 대륙에서 개발 중인이 스튜디오의 획기적인 프로젝트는 혁신과 영감에 대한 일관된 열정을 제시한다.

'ZHA Close Up'은 ZHA의 아키텍처에 새겨져 있는 40년간의 실험 여정을 탐구하며, 그들의 디자인은 새로운 디자인이 나올 때마다 공간적으로 더 창의적이고, 더 구조적으로 효율적이며, 기술적으로 더 발전하고, 환경적으로 더 민감해지는 엿볼 수 있다. 아울러 지속 가능하면서 환경 분석과 최적화된 형상 기술을 적용함으로써 낭비와 자원소비를 줄이는 효율적인 설계 방식을 보여준다.

Zaha Hadid Design (ZHD)에서는 가구, 조명 및 패션 분야에서 자하하디드의 독창적인 방법론과 시그니처 디자인은 물론 디자인 세계에서 시간을 초월하고 존경받는 존재를 보장하기 위해 우수성과 부적합에 타협하지 않는 창의적인 디자인은 살펴볼 수 있다. ANN

Patrik Schumacher Principal of Zaha Hadid Architects

Shai Baitel Artistic Director of MAM Shanghai

자료_ ZHA, MAM Shanghai

MAM Shanghai presents the first exhibition of Zaha Hadid Architects in mainland China, with a retrospective display of projects dating from 1982 to today.

Defined by a timeline of Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) formative works in China, 'ZHA Close Up' at MAM Shanghai explores the pioneering research and interconnecting relationships that unite their projects around the globe, detailing the technological innovations that are transforming how the studio imagines, designs and constructs built environments.

Running until 29 August 2021, the exhibition examines the evolution of Zaha Hadid Architects’ buildings over the last 40 years—from the flowing urban spaces of the MAXXI Museum of 21st Century Art in Rome (2010) and Leeza SOHO in Beijing (2019) to the studio’s ground-breaking projects currently in development across six continents—demonstrating a consistent desire to innovate and inspire.

Founded by the late Zaha Hadid in 1979, Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) redefined architecture for the 21st century with a repertoire of projects that have captured imaginations across the globe. Hadid was a major figure in the world of architecture and the first woman to receive the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2004. She first travelled to China in 1981 at the very beginning of her career. Like her birthplace Iraq, carved by the Euphrates and the Tigris, China’s natural landscapes and urban settlements have been shaped through history by its great rivers and waterways. Travelling from north to south, visiting many Chinese cities to experience its art and architecture, Hadid studied the methods that embed its historic architecture within the great theatre of natural landscapes.

ZHA’s competition-winning design for the Peak Club in Hong Kong (1982-1983) manifests Hadid’s investigations into the fluid relationships between building and site, interior and exterior, architecture and engineering. Defined by the topography of the surrounding mountainside, in this and later seminal projects such as the Guangzhou Opera House (2010) and Beijing Daxing International Airport (2019), ZHA’s work echoes the coherence of the nature in an organic architectural language generating unrivalled spatial experiences that are intuitive to navigate and recognised around the world.

'ZHA Close Up' explores the journey of four decades of experimentation that are inscribed within ZHA’s architecture and has seen their designs become more spatially inventive, more structurally efficient, more technologically advanced and more environmentally sensitive with each new design and positions their work at the forefront of architectural practice.

Showcasing projects that have received highest honours from civic, professional and academic institutions worldwide, 'ZHA Close Up' will present the studio’s pioneering research to improve how the industry designs and constructs:

Sustainability- the application of detailed environmental analysis and geometry optimization techniques to maximize efficient design with less waste and consumption of resources.

Computation & Design- collaboration with the world’s most respected scientific institutions to develop innovations in robotics, artificial intelligence and digital fabrication.

ZH Social- investigation of the social interaction processes to be expected in the designed environments via agent-based simulations with differentiated agent populations and decision processes.

Analytics & Insights- data analytics and human behaviour modelling to design healthy and productive working environments that are tailor-made to overall and individual wellness.

Virtual Reality- demonstrating the remarkable possibilities immersive technologies will offer architects to collaborate and design in augmented reality.

The exhibition will also present Zaha Hadid Design (ZHD), formed in 2006 out of a need to create a separate platform to share Hadid’s distinct dialogue of contemporary design, although the ZHD portfolio encompasses 40 years of research. Today it is defined by Hadid’s inventive methodology and signature design in furniture, lighting and fashion which transcends boundaries and has a global following. ZHD has partnered with iconic brands to create exceptional one-off and limited edition pieces which form part of some of the world’s most esteemed museum collections. Each piece effortlessly conveys immaculate craftsmanship and Hadid’s virtuosity with fluid geometry. Launched in 2014 under its own label, the ‘ZHD Collection’ further expresses Hadid’s vision in an uncompromising pursuit of excellence and non-conformity to define the acclaimed brand and ensure its timeless and revered presence within the design world.

Shai Baitel, Artistic Director of MAM Shanghai, said: “I am excited to include, as part of our interdisciplinary and immersive approach at MAM, this important exhibition, celebrating Zaha Hadid's ingenuity. Hadid was an exceptional woman, and we are delighted to show our audience the development of her movement as a researcher, designer, and architect through various geographies and histories—and how this movement impacts the current innovative vision and work of Zaha Hadid Architects, following her untimely passing. Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) continues and expands on her legacy and MAM is proud to present this show, granting unprecedented insights into the vision of one of the most important architects of our time."

Patrik Schumacher, Principal, Zaha Hadid Architects, said: “With this show we aim to present who we are close up, our depth of experience, our current preoccupations, and our aspirations for the future.”

MAM Shanghai is the largest contemporary art museum in Shanghai, measuring over 7,000 square meters. The state of the art museum located at the heart of Shanghai’s cultural mile along the Huangpu River is a premier institution for contemporary art with a global and multidisciplinary approach.

The Modern Art Museum (MAM) in Shanghai, China, is an institution with a global and multidisciplinary approach, contributing to the education, knowledge and enjoyment of art through an immersive and engaging experience. Its vast industrial architecture offers a versatile and dynamic space to connect shared cultures of the East and West. Located on the ‘cultural corridor’ of museums and galleries that runs along the riverside in the Pudong New Area, MAM, utilizes innovative methods to facilitate public participation and engagement with art.