Welcome to the Zaha Hadid blog
May 31st, 2007
Welcome to the Zaha Hadid blog! With a month to go before the opening of the ZAHA HADID ARCHITECTURE + DESIGN exhibition at the Design Museum in London, we’ll be using this blog to post news about the show as well as interviews, photos and comments from a range of invited contributors (more details on who they are soon).
To get things started, we spent the afternoon today at Zaha’s studio in Clerkenwell, London, talking to Zaha and some of the key people in her office.
We weren’t expecting Zaha to be around but she arrived in the boardroom while we were there and chatted with us between texting her friends (she’s an avid texter) and having meetings with her staff.
While we were there we did in-depth interviews with project director Woody Yao, who is the architect in charge of the exhibition at the Design Museum, and partner Patrik Schumacher (below). We forgot to take a photo of Woody unfortunately.
We’ll be posting these interviews in the near future, plus hopefully we’ll be doing an interview with Zaha herself in the next week or so.
Another key person at Zaha’s office is her head of press Roger Howie, although Roger wasn’t quite so keen to have his photograph taken (above).
Zaha’s office is in a converted Victorian school. Her 250 staff are housed in several rooms that used to be classrooms.
The boardroom has a sculpture by Zaha in carved polystyrene hanging from the ceiling (below).
Paintings, models and studies for architectural projects are mounted on one wall (below). Most of them relate to the Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art in Cincinatti, USA, which opened in 2003.
Well that’s what we did today; we’ll be putting more stuff up over the coming days, so please come back soon.
