Date: 23rd April 2016

Time: 12:00 pm

Venue: IDS, Building 8, GTU, 75 Kostava Street, Tbilisi 

Event: Zaha Hadid: Gender, Constructivism, and Centuries 

Format: Memorial Presentation and Remembrance Party

Speakers: Students of IDS and Tbilisi State Academy of Arts, Faculty of 

Architecture, instructed by Prof. Nick Shavishvili, Dean of IDS

Poster © David Droni

A joint effort between the IDS bachelors and the TSAA master students to remember one of the greatest architects of the modern era, the Iraqi-born British designer Zaha Hadid who died suddenly of a heart attack at the age of 65 leaving the vast number of daring projects, sketches, paintings, furniture and objects, completed or still unfinished work on the building sites and the drawing boards. The grand dame of the design world, with a larger-than-life personality, Zaha had defied boundaries between pure artistry and functionality and in her cruelly shortened creative life had generated some of the wildest, unrestrained images, objects and buildings in the entire history of architecture and design. Memorial presentation at the IDS premises followed by the remembrance party celebrated life and talent of the great woman whose work ranged  from paintings and sculpture objects to shoes, bags, fashion accessories, dresses and overcoats, and to chairs, desks, worktables, lamps, beds, wallpapers, all the way to interiors, boutique shops and restaurants, houses, other single or small building, to large buildings like museums and government or educational institutions, and huge urban developments some of which still are underway, and the project development and construction stages of them will outlive their creator for maybe dozens of years, and the creations themselves – for the centuries.