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Zaha Hadid in Venice

Parallel to Venice Architecture Biennale, Fondazione Berengo put together paintings, drawings and models of Zaha Hadid’s repertoire in a full retrospective exhibition.

Fondazione Berengo, "Zaha Hadid", Venice, 2016

Fondazione Berengo in Venice, is hosting at the 16th century Palazzo Franchetti a full retrospective exhibition on Zaha Hadid’s career in architecture and design that spans four decades.

“Zaha Hadid”, Fondazione Berengo, Venezia 2016

The exhibition, coinciding with this year’s Venice Architectural Biennale, showcases many of the seminal paintings, drawings and models of Hadid’s repertoire, conveying the ingenuity and dynamism of her architectural projects in a variety of media including photography and film. Through her designs – built, under construction, in development and unrealised – the exhibition displays the pioneering research and investigation that instigates and defines Zaha Hadid Architects’ work.

The exhibition outlines the innovations and applications developed by the practice’s in-house computation and design research team (CODE). CODE’s research and development harnesses the latent opportunities within the interdisciplinary collaboration of computationally literate architects, engineers and emerging digital manufacturing methods, establishing a collective research culture that enables many diverse talents and innovative ideas to feed into each other.