Zaha Hadid Architects to host its first exhibition in Latin America

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The renowned architecture firm Zaha Hadid Architects has announced its first exhibition in Latin America, which will take place at the Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC) on the campus of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). The exhibition, titled Design as Second Nature, will showcase several projects by architect Zaha Hadid through models, audiovisual materials, paintings, and photographs, exploring the creative process of her practice and highlighting the importance and complexity of design as the central axis connecting form and construction in her work.

Throughout its career, Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) has demonstrated that design must go beyond practical function to become a process of material and structural innovation. The studio developed parametricism—a digital tool inspired by scientific simulation and film animation—to expand creative capabilities and the possibilities of design logic, making it expressive, imaginative, and evocative of the dynamism of contemporary urban life.

The exhibition will include some of Hadid's early paintings, such as Malevich’s Tektonik (1976-1977), which reveal the influence of Russian Constructivism and Suprematism on her artistic vision, serving both as exploration tools for architectural design and as autonomous entities. The MUAC will also display multidisciplinary pieces, including objects and clothing that exemplify her drive to blur boundaries within her practice.  

In addition, a section will be dedicated to the architectural projects the studio developed for Latin America, such as the proposal for the new Mexico City airport—a collaboration with Francisco Serrano's office—and the JVC Center in Guadalajara. Driven by a spirit of experimentation, the ZHCode research lab has conducted studies on membranes, curves, and shells, which are also featured in the exhibition. Meanwhile, the MUAC courtyard will host a site-specific installation created by this lab in collaboration with the UNAM Faculty of Architecture.

Beyond showcasing various building typologies, the exhibition aims to highlight ZHA's collaborative synergies, its proposals for inhabiting a shared world, and the link between nature and the creative processes that shape an organic design for the future. The exhibition will run from October 20, 2018, to March 3, 2019, at the Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC) at UNAM.

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