Since the year 2000 Zaha Hadid has held the chair for Architectural Design at the Vienna University of Applied Arts. The exhibition currently held in the Vienna Museum of Applied Arts (MAK) features her most recent projects in Europe, North America, and Asia. The wide range of work on display includes a large-scale urban plan; proposals for international design competitions; building designs for contemporary cultural facilities; sports facilities; documentation of current projects under construction; as well as completed buildings and installations.

However, the very focus of the current Zaha Hadid show is on her spatial experiment “Ice-Storm”, which has been developed specifically for the Vienna MAK. With 300 square meters, eight tons and seven meters in height, this ‘interior landscape’ occupies the central exhibition hall. As a result, visitors are drawn by the radical experience of space offered by Hadid’s unique architectural approach into an exhibition which presents a comprehensive overview of the oeuvre of the architect. Running from May 14 to August 17 this solo exhibition constitutes a highlight of the MAK’s 2003 exhibition calendar with its architectural focus.

Models, paintings, renderings, animations, and large-format photographs of buildings and projects both realised and still under construction provide a profound insight into Zaha Hadid’s design practice in all phases of their development. In addition, the exhibition also brings together a large number of medium and large format works into an “archive” of “major paintings” – some of which are being shown for the first time.

Zaha Hadid Exhibition
Date: May 14th – August 17th, 2003
Place: MAK – Museum of Applied Arts, Wien
Address: 3 Weiskirchnerstrasse, 1010 Vienna
Tel: +43 1 711 360
https://www.mak.at