From late May, with the long-awaited opening of MAXXI Ro
but Zaha Hadid, the Iraqi naturalized British architect, has become a familiar face and love in Italy by all those who would like the Bel Paese launched in future from the point architecturally and artistically. On the threshold of one hundred thousand visitors in two months, the MAXXI represents an indelible mark left by Hadid in our country, pending the completion of another museum area of \u200b\u200benormous importance that will bring the signature dell'archistar Iraq, the Museum of Mediterranean of Reggio Calabria . With a shape reminiscent of that of the starfish, the new museum should be completed by 2015 and enriching a promenade that Gabriele D'Annunzio called "the most beautiful kilometer in Italy". Born in 1950 in Iraq, Zaha Hadid is currently at the top of the pantheon of superstars, those architects a little 'and some artists' superstar, who through their work and their visions have helped change the landscape of cities around the world, working in the balance between different traditions and drive towards the future. After a childhood spent in Baghdad and a degree in mathematics from the University of Beirut, Zaha moved in the 70s in a London that was light years away from the current postmodern metropolis. "The experience of the transfer was very liberating," he says, "Now I know that the British are actually misogynists and chauvinists, but then I picked especially their love of all that is eccentric, which allowed me to do what I wanted" . And surely the eccentricity is one of the absolute stylistic figures of this artist, who in his more established influences the Russian avant-garde artists such as Suprematism and El Lissitzky, Kasimir Malevich and Alexander Rodchenko: exponent of deconstructionism, Zaha is was the first woman to win the prestigious Pritzker Prize for architecture in 2004. The projects in his studio, based in London, marked several cities around the world, large and small: from an impressive hotel complex in Hong Kong at the fire station in the German town of Vitra, the bar Moonsoon restaurant in Sapporo, Japan , Center for Contemporary Art in Cincinnati, USA.
In Italy is one of his most important works of contemporary architecture in the capital after the Auditorium by Renzo Piano and waiting for the Cloud, the futuristic skyscraper that would rise in the EUR district designed by Massimiliano Fuksas, MAXXI - National Museum of XXI Century Arts, designed by Iraqi, has become the new destination for tourists and art lovers in search of traces of the future in the heart of the city more than others inspires a sense of historical depth.
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