The most recent works – the science centre in Wolfsburg, the BMW centre in Leipzig, the Bergisel trampoline and the centre of contemporary art in Cincinnati – alongside a historic overview which includes everything from the early projects. Together with an installation created for the museum – a huge piece taking up 300 square metres and weighing 8 tonnes.

All this goes to make up the retrospective that the Vienna museum of Applied Arts has dedicated to Zaha Hadid, the Iraqi born architect who is one of the most unconventional and visionary designers on the contemporary scene.

And it is right now that whilst her visions, one after the other, are becoming reality – take the museum in Cincinnati which will open during the course of the exhibition – that one can start to take stock of the twenty years of design that seems to be conceived deliberately to break the rules and upset the status quo in architecture. (“The most important thing is motion”, according to Zaha Hadid “the flux of things, a non-Euclidean geometry in which nothing repeats itself: a new order of space”).

until 17.8.2003
Zaha Hadid Architecture
MAK, Stubenring 5, Vienna
https://www.mak.at