kultureflash

Issue no. 82

Project Herault Culture Sport
Montpellier, France (2002-07)
3D Rendering

ZAHA HADID
2004 PRITZKER PRIZE LAUREATE

While the weather forecasts for London predict thundery showers and howling winds, a different storm is rising within the world of architecture. And that wind cries "Zaha Hadid".

Not only was Hadid the first ever architect to feature in KultureFlash's artist-in-residence programme (with her Car Park and Terminal in Strasbourg, which went on to win the 2003 Mies van der Rohe award), she has now won the 2004 Pritzker Architecture Prize, the equivalent of a Nobel Prize and most prestigious architecture award in the world. The first female architect of global standing, Hadid will also be the first female Pritzker laureate ever, and the third UK-based architect (following James Stirling and Lord Foster) to receive the honour. The prize is awarded to living architects who have "produced consistent and significant contributions to humanity and the built environment through the art of architecture".

It long looked as if this wouldn't happen until 2013. Hadid's career has been made up of 10-year steps: her first international success being a club in Hong Kong in 1983, her first ever building was erected 1993, and 2003 saw the opening of her CAC in Cincinatti, a museum hailed by the reputed architecture critic Herbert Muschamp as "the most important American building to be completed since the end of the Cold War". We couldn't agree more with Muschamp's statement, nor with that of the Pritzker jury. Congratulations, Zaha!

Additional Info:
Zaha Hadid website
designboom profile
Zaha Hadid paintings

Built Projects:
Vitra Fire Station, Weil am Rhein, Germany (1989-93): images
LFone Landesgartenschau, Weil am Rhein, Germany (1997-99): images
Car Park and Terminus, Strasbourg, France (1999-2002): photo essay
Bergisel Ski-Jump, Innsbruck, Austria (1999-02): images
Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, USA (1998-2003): photo essay

Under Construction:
Wolfsburg Science Center, Germany (1999-2005): images
BMW Plant, Central Building, Leipzig, Germany (2001-05): images
Ordrupgaard Extension, Ordrup, Denmark (2001-05)

Ongoing:
Museum of Art for the XXI Century, Rome, Italy (1998-06): images
Guggenheim Museum, Taichung, Taiwan (2002-TBD): images
High Speed Station, Napoli Afragola, Italy (2002-TBD): images
Zorrozaurre Master Plan, Bibao, Spain (2002-TBD): image
Price Tower Arts Center, Oklahoma, USA (2002-05)
Project Herault Culture Sport Montpellier, France (2003-07): images

Unbuilt:
Malevich's Tektonik, London, UK (1976-77): image
The Peak, Hong Kong (1983): images
KMR, Art and Media Centre, Duesseldorf, Germany (1989-93): image
Cardiff Opera House, Cardiff, Wales, UK (1994-96): images
Temporary Guggenheim Museum, Tokyo, Japan (2001)

Awards:
Pritzker Architecture Prize (2004)
Terminus Hoenheim-Nord: Mies van der Rohe Award (2003)

Press:
ArtsJournal.com Sticks & Stones column by James S. Russell (29/03/04)
New York Times Woman of Steel article by Herbert Muschamp (28/03/04)
Le Monde 2004 Pritzker Prize article (24/03/04)
The New Republic Reality Bites article (23/03/04)
Slate 2004 Pritzker Prize article (23/03/04)
Christian Science Monitor 2004 Pritzker Prize article (23/03/04)
archiseek.com Zaha Hadid, a worthy winner... (23/03/04)
ABC Radio (Australia) interview (23/03/04)
Telegraph Martyr for the avant garde joins the elite at last article (23/03/04)
Telegraph Top prize for architect who is ignored by fellow British article (23/03/04)
ABC (Spain) 2004 Pritzker Prize article (22/03/04)
El Mundo 2004 Pritzker Prize article (22/03/04)
Washington Post 2004 Pritzker Prize article (22/03/04)
Los Angeles Times 2004 Pritzker Prize article by Nicolai Ouroussoff (22/03/04)
New York Times 2004 Pritzker Prize article (22/03/04)
USA Today 2004 Pritzker Prize article (21/03/04)
Reuters 2004 Pritzker Prize article (21/03/04)
New York magazine Lost In Space article by Joseph Giovannini (21/07/03)
Guardian Look what I built article (19/06/03)
Sunday Times An American Beauty article by Hugh Pearman (15/06/03)
New York Times ZH's Urban Mothership article by Herbert Muschamp (08/06/03)
CNN From Sketch to Substance article (18/03/03)
Guardian Master Builder article (03/02/03)
Observer Space Is Her Place article (02/02/03)
Interview (2002)

Exhibitions:
Painted Projects, SFMOMA, San Francisco, USA (1997-98)
A New World Trade Center, Max Protetch, New York, USA (2001-02)
Zaha Hadid, Contemporary Arts Center of Rome, Italy (2002)
ZH Laboratory, National Building Museum, Washington DC, USA (2002)
Latent Utopias, Graz, Austria -- curated by Zaha Hadid (2002-03)
Zaha Hadi and Cai Guo-Qiang at The Snow Show in Lapland, Finland (2004)

Miscellaneous:
Zaha Hadid: Architecture (Hatje Cantz) review
Desire stage set, Graz, Austria (2003)