Zaha Hadid
Designer of the Year
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The Designer of the Year Award is presented to an individual whose body of work pushes the boundaries of art, architecture and design.
The inaugural recipient of the Design Miami Designer of the Year Award was Pritzker Architecture Prize winner Zaha Hadid.
In honor of this award, Ms. Hadid created a site-specific installation in the central atrium of the exhibiting gallery spaces.
While many works of art, design and architecture can be easily identified as such, there exists an increasing number of forms that resist categorization, hovering instead in the fluid space between. On the continuum of possibilities, with architect at one end, artist at the other, and designer
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somewhere in the middle, Zaha Hadid is the rare figure that occupies the entire spectra with brilliance and ease-making her the natural choice to inaugurate this endeavor.
What makes Zaha Hadid's work so remarkable — from something as complex as an industrial automotive plant to something as seemingly simple as a table — is her creation of a new, often curvilinear, language to innovate form, function, and type. Molding material and space into sculptural, liquid-like forms, her designs appear as if they could unfurl into infinity.
Zaha Hadid is best known for her seminal built works, including the Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art in Cincinnati, the Vitra Fire Station, the Strasbourg Tram Station, and most
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recently two projects in Germany, the BMW plant in Leipzig and the Phaeno Science Center in Wolfsburg.
Projects currently in the works include the Contemporary Arts Center in Rome; a ferry terminal in Salerno, Italy; high speed train stations in Naples, Italy and Durango, Spain; an office tower in Marseille; the Aquatic Center for the 2012 London Olympics; a bridge in Abu Dhabi; the Guangzhou Opera House and most ambitiously, master plans for Beijing, Singapore, and Bilbao.
In addition to having held professorships at the world's leading architectural schools, including Harvard, Yale and the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, her paintings, drawings and architectural designs have been widely published and exhibited in such groundbreaking
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Zaha Hadid
Designer of the Year
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shows as "Deconstructivist Architecture" at MoMA in 1988. Hadid, an Iraqi born British citizen, has won numerous architectural competitions. Most notably she was the first woman to receive the prestigious Pritzker Prize for Architecture in 2004.
Zaha Hadid and The Moore
The focal point of the historic Moore building, originally built as a furniture showroom in 1921, is the soaring four-story atrium that rises up its center on Corinthian columns. This emphatically vertical enclosure presented a unique spatial opportunity to create an installation that can be viewed at myriad angles from four different levels. For Design Miami, Zaha Hadid
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designed a characteristically gravity-defying sculptural installation of zig-zagging material that engages the building's formal qualities with graceful tension.
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