Design and Architecture
Zaha Hadid and Design in a Time of Fear
She has wowed the design world with her visionary, competition-winning designs on paper. Now, Zaha Hadid is finally getting to build her designs. The Contemporary Arts Center opens in Cincinnati, Ohio in May. Hadid talks about her work, her native land and her first building here--the first major museum by a woman architect in America. If Hadid's work reflects optimism about the chaos of our times, design also expresses its insecurities. Paola Antonelli is curator of architecture and design at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and co-curator of this summer's Aspen Design Conference, whose theme is Safe: Design Takes on Risk.
By Frances Anderton • • 30m ListenZaha Hadid is the Iraqi-born, London-based architect of the new Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, a Contemporary Arts Center in Rome, the Vitra Fire Station in Basel, and numerous experimental, competition-winning schemes.
Paola Antonelli is curator in the Department of Architecture and Design at New York-s Museum of Modern Art. She is also co-curator of this year's Aspen Design Conference, whose subject is, "Safe: Design Takes on Risk." The idea for Safe grew out of an exhibit, entitled, Emergency, that Paola had prepared for MoMA. That exhibit, now entitled Safe, will go on show at MOMA in 2005.