INVENTORY OF THE ZAHA HADID DRAWINGS FOR "THE GREAT UTOPIA" EXHIBITION, 1992
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INVENTORY OF THE ZAHA HADID DRAWINGS FOR "THE GREAT UTOPIA" EXHIBITION, 1992
Accession no. 950083
Finding aid prepared by Scott Wolf
Getty Research Institute
Contact Information:
- The Getty Research Institute
- Research Library
- Special Collections and Visual Resources
- 1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
- Los Angeles, California 90049-1688
- Phone: (310) 440-7390
- Fax: (310) 440-7780
- Email Requests: http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/library/reference_form.html
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- Processed by:
- Scott Wolf
- Date Completed:
-
1997, revised April 2004
- Encoded by:
- Philip Curtis, revised by Julio Vera
©1998 J. Paul Getty Trust.
Descriptive Summary
Title: Zaha Hadid drawings for "The Great Utopia" exhibition
Date (inclusive): 1992
Collection number: 950083
Creator:
Hadid, Zaha
Extent:
ca. 6 linear feet
(79 drawings)
Repository:
Getty Research Institute
Research Library
Special Collections and Visual Resources
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles, CA 90049-1688
Abstract: A collection of 79 drawings and paintings from contemporary architect, Zaha Hadid (b. 1950) executed for the design of the
exhibition of Russian Constructivist art, "The Great Utopia" (Guggenheim Museum, 1992). There are 32 ink drawings and 47 acrylic
paintings, grouped thematically by installation.
Language: Collection material in English
Administrative Information
Access
Open for use by qualified researchers.
Publication Rights
Preferred Citation
Zaha Hadid drawings for "The Great Utopia" exhibition, 1992, Getty Research Institute, Research Library, Accession no. 950083.
Acquisition Information
Acquired in 1995.
Processing History
Scott Wolf processed and described the collection in 1997. Annette Leddy edited this finding aid, July 1997.
Biographical/Historical Note
Zaha Hadid is a leading architect, currently practicing in London, whose work encompasses urban planning, interior design,
and product and furniture design. She was born in Iraq in 1950 and received her degree in mathematics at the American University
in Beirut. From 1972 to 1977, Hadid attended the Architectural Association in London where she encountered the work of the
architects Elias Zenghelis and Rem Koolhaas. After completing her studies, Hadid joined the Office for Metropolitan Architecture
(OMA) as a partner and worked on the Dutch House of Parliament Extension in the Hague. She established her own practice in
London in 1979 and soon after won the Peak International Design Competition, Hong Kong, in 1983. This award was the first
of Hadid's many international exhibitions, awards and commissions. Since 1986, Hadid has intermittently taught architectural
design at the Architectural Association, London; the Graduate School of Design, Harvard; and the Graduate School of Architecture,
Planning and Preservation, Columbia University. Hadid is known and admired as much for her extraordinary abstract, deconstructionist
architectural drawings as for her built designs, which, though few, include the fire station in Vitra Germany and the IBA
housing block in Berlin.
Scope and Content of Collection
This collection of drawings by Zaha Hadid contains 32 ink drawings (on mylar) and 47 acrylic paintings (on black and cream
paper) that the architect executed for the design of the exhibition of Russian Constructivist art, "The Great Utopia," held
at the Guggenheim Museum, New York, in 1992. Hadid's drawings demonstrate her debt to Russian Suprematism and Constructivism,
especially the work of Kasimir Malevich, Ivan Leonidov, El Lissitzsky and Konstatin Melnikov, as they offer spaces where these
designers' work can be reexperienced and reinterpreted. Hadid recreates Malevich's "Tectonic" as a curved or "bent" form and
uses color in a manner reminiscent of Theo van Doesburg and members of De Stijl. As always, she defies conventions of architectural
drawing to evoke disorienting perceptual effects and, in this case, to undermine and extend those of the Guggenheim.
The collection includes designs that were not implemented for the exhibition as well as those that were. Apart from 32 "Study
Drawings," the drawings are grouped by installation, each installation concerning a certain theme or interpretation of a Constructivist
thematic: "Tatlin Tower," "Suprematist Walls," "Zig Zag Wall," "Porcelain Beams," "Black Room," "Globe Room," "Skyline of
Tectonics," "Maze Room," and "Bent Tectonic." The black display boxes that originally housed the collection have been placed
in a separate box (Box 2).
Indexing Terms
Subjects
Constructivism (Architecture)—Russia—Exhibitions
Genres and Forms of Material
Design drawings—1992
Box 1
Ideas for Avant-garde Russian Exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum, N.Y.
1992
Box 1, Folder 1
32 study drawings, Russian Avant-garde Exhibition
Scope and Content Note
black ink on mylar film. 298 x 298 mm.
Box 1, Folder 2
Tatlin Tower Interpretation
Box 1, Folder 2
1. Rotunda Study Plan: photocopy/watercolor/acrylic on cream card. 298 x 298 mm.
Box 1, Folder 2
2. Rotunda Study Plan: photocopy/watercolor/acrylic on cream card. 298 x 298 mm.
Box 1, Folder 2
3. Study: photocopy/watercolor on cream card. 298 x 298 mm.
Box 1, Folder 2
4. Rotunda Study Plan: acrylic/pencil on black paper. 298 x 298 mm.
Box 1, Folder 2
5. Study: acrylic/pencil on black paper. 411 x 298 mm.
Box 1, Folder 2
6. Rotunda Perspective Study: acrylic/pencil on cream card. 298 x 298 mm.
Box 1, Folder 2
7. Rotunda Perspective Study: acrylic/pencil/watercolor on cream card. 298 x 298 mm.
Box 1, Folder 3
Storm of Paintings, Suprematist Walls
Box 1, Folder 3
1. Annex Perspective: acrylic/pencil on cream paper. 298 x 298 mm.
Box 1, Folder 3
2. Annex Perspective: acrylic/pencil on black cartridge paper. 298 x 298 mm.
Box 1, Folder 3
3. Annex Perspective: acrylic/pencil on cream paper. 298 x 298 mm.
Box 1, Folder 3
4. Annex Study: ink/acrylic/watercolor on cream paper. 298 x 298 mm.
Box 1, Folder 3
5. Annex Perspective Study: acrylic/pencil on cream paper. 298 x 298 mm.
Box 1, Folder 4
1. Zig Zag Perspective: acrylic/pencil on cream card. 298 x 298 mm.
Box 1, Folder 4
2. Zig Zag Perspective: acrylic/pencil on cartridge paper. 298 x 298 mm.
Box 1, Folder 4
Porcelain Beams, Textile Wall
Box 1, Folder 4
3. Beam with Tableware: acrylic/pencil on black cartridge paper. 298 x 298 mm.
Box 1, Folder 4
4. Plan: acrylic/pencil on black cartridge paper. 298 x 298 mm.
Box 1, Folder 4
5. Black Room with Spotlit Paintings: Acrylic/pencil on cream paper. 298 x 298 mm.
Box 1, Folder 4
6. Black Room with Spotlit Paintings: acrylic/pencil on black cartridge paper. 298 x 298 mm.
Box 1, Folder 5
1. Study: acrylic/white ink on black cartridge paper. 298 x 298 mm.
Box 1, Folder 5
2. Perspective Study: acrylic/black ink/pencil on cream paper. 298 x 298 mm.
Box 1, Folder 5
3. Perspective Study: acrylic/pencil on paper. 298 x 298 mm.
Box 1, Folder 5
4. Perspective Study: acrylic/pencil on black cartridge paper. 298 x 298 mm.
Box 1, Folder 5
5. Study: acrylic/pencil on cream card. 298 x 298 mm.
Box 1, Folder 5
6. Skyline of Tectonics: acrylic/pencil on cream card. 298 x 298 mm.
Box 1, Folder 5
Maze Room 1st Discussion (1 item)
Box 1, Folder 5
7. Study: acrylic on black cartridge paper. 298 x 298 mm.
Box 1, Folder 6
1. Computer Study: acrylic/pencil on cream card. 298 x 298 mm.
Box 1, Folder 6
2. Study: acrylic/pencil on cream card. 298 x 298 mm.
Box 1, Folder 6
3. Computer Study: acrylic/pencil on cream card. 298 x 298 mm.
Box 1, Folder 6
4. Computer Study: acrylic/pencil on cream card. 298 x 298 mm.
Box 1, Folder 6
5. Perspective Study: acrylic/pencil on cream card. 298 x 298 mm.
Box 1, Folder 6
6. Perspective Study: acrylic/pencil on cream card. 298 x 298 mm.
Box 1, Folder 6
7. Perspective Study: acrylic/pencil on cream card. 298 x 298 mm.
Box 1, Folder 6
8. Perspective Study: acrylic/pencil on cream card. 298 x 298 mm.
Box 1, Folder 6
9. Perspective Study: acrylic/pencil on cream card. 298 x 298 mm.
Box 1, Folder 6
10. Perspective Study: acrylic/pencil on cream card. 298 x 298 mm.
Box 1, Folder 6
11. Perspective Study: acrylic/pencil on cream card. 298 x 298 mm.
Box 1, Folder 7
1. Perspective Study: acrylic/pencil on cream card. 298 x 298 mm.
Box 1, Folder 7
2. Study: acrylic/pencil on cream card. 298 x 298 mm.
Box 1, Folder 7
3. Perspective Study: acrylic/pencil on cream card. 298 x 298 mm.
Box 1, Folder 7
4. Perspective Study: acrylic/pencil/photocopy on cream paper. 298 x 298 mm.
Box 1, Folder 7
5. Perspective Study: acrylic/pencil on cream card. 298 x 298 mm.
Box 1, Folder 7
6. Perspective Study: acrylic/pencil on cream card. 298 x 298 mm.
Box 1, Folder 7
7. Perspective Study: acrylic/black ink on cream card. 298 x 298 mm.
Box 1, Folder 7
8. Perspective Study: acrylic/photocopy/pencil on cream card. 298 x 298 mm.
Box 1, Folder 7
9. Perspective Study: acrylic/pencil on cream card. 298 x 298 mm.
Box 1, Folder 7
10. Computer Study: acrylic/pencil on cream card. 298 x 298 mm.
Box 1, Folder 7
11. Computer Study: acrylic/pencil on cream card. 298 x 298 mm.
Box 2
Display Boxes
1992
Scope and Content Note
3 black display boxes, made expressly for the drawings. 320 x 320 mm.
