26.09.2015  Representatives of the Architectural Design Department visited the exhibition of Zaha Hadid in St. Petersburg

On 23d of September, Wednesday, the faculty members and students of Architectural Design Department of the NovSU Polytechnic School visited the State Hermitage.

The excursionists observed the state rooms of the Hermitage and saw the first Russia's retrospective exhibition of the Arab-British architect and designer Zaha Hadid*. The project had been prepared specifically for the Nicholas Hall of the Winter Palace - one of the main ceremonial historical interiors of the museum. The exhibition features about 300 models, drawings, photographs, sculptures and design objects. Here, as part of the exhibition, they can see the experimental designs of the 1980s, the first completed projects, which brought success to the architect and, of course, the works of recent years, among them - the opera in Guangzhou, the center of Heydar Aliyev, the London Aquatics Centre and many others.

The excursion was organized as part of the educational process and, according to the faculty, it would play an important role in vocational education of the future architects and designers.

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*For reference. Zaha Hadid is the first-ever female architect who was awarded the prestigious architectural award - the Pritzker Prize. She managed to turn the complex and refined architectural direction of "Deconstruction" into the recognized current style in the global architecture. She loves Russian Suprematism and she has dedicated many years to it. This love provides an additional opportunity to Russian viewers to form their own special look at the work of Hadid.

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