Zaha Hadid - Deconstructivist design

Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid, mainly known as Zaha Hadid is an Iraqi born architect, with a British nationality, is well known for her futuristic building structures.  Her design structures are powerful they have an elongated and curving form.  It can be seen from many perspective points and use fragmented geometric shapes to evoke chaos of modern life.

In the beginning of her career her designs were in conflict with the design concepts dominating at that time.

Her early childhood education in Baghdad took place in the first Bauhaus building structure built there at a time when modernism was becoming attractive in many countries and it showed a progressive thinking taking place in the Middle East.
Probably her first steps in this educational building influenced her so much, that in time she developed a style of design of her own that departed from there.

In time she finished school and started working.  While working for her professors Rem Koolhass and Elia Zenghelis at the office for Metropolis Architecture, in Rotterdam, in the year 1977, she became a partner with Koolhass and by this time had met Peter Rice, an engineer who gave her support and encouragment she needed at a time when her design seemed difficult to be accepted by society.

In years to come, her role in teaching, at many universities world wide and some evolving building projects paved the way for her design to be accepted.  She didn't only design architectural buildings but involved herself in products like fashion for the trade mark Lacoste, interior design work at Millennium Dome in London and the creating of fluid furniture installations in Georgian style houses.
In 2007 she created a design for B&B Italia named the Moon System Sofa.

Her designs are often in conflict with the space they are flowing in.  However not always.  One item which really made a good impact on me is the Celeste necklace and cuff produced for client Swarovski and designed by Zaha Hadid and Patrick Schumacker.  The material used were blackened pure silver and precious stones: white topaz, smoky quartz and black-spaniel.

Zaha Hadid & Patrick Schumacker/Title of work[celeste necklace and cuff]
available at:http://www.thenewsgallery.com/2010/05/from-architecture-to-jewelry-zaha-hadid.html/
[Accessed15 January 2013]

These items, elongated and curvically shaped and a flowing design with geometric fragmented segments, mould themselves to a woman's body and merge with the dress itself.



Wikipedia [online]Available at <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaha_Hadid>[Accessed 15 January 2013]
Zaha Hadid Architects[online]Available at <http://www.zaha-hadid.com/design/celeste-necklace-cuff/>[Accessed 15 January 2013]