The first exhibition by Zaha Hadid Architects ‘ZHA Close Up – Work & Research’ at the Modern Art Museum in Shanghai displays an in-depth look at the evolution of Zaha Hadid Architects’ projects over the last 40 years, from the MAXXI Museum and the Leeza SOHO in Beijing, to the studio’s current ongoing projects across the world.

ZHA Close Up highlights the detailing and technological innovations that have shaped how the studio imagines, designs, and constructs built environments, making it one of the most prominent and spatially inventive practices in the world. It also presents the studio’s extensive research across the decades that give insights so to how architects can improve the design and construction industry, such as:

• Sustainability – “the application of detailed environmental analysis and geometry optimization techniques to maximize efficient design with less waste and consumption of resources”.
• Computation & Design – “collaboration with the world’s most respected scientific institutions to develop innovations in robotics, artificial intelligence and digital fabrication”.
• ZH Social – “investigation of the social interaction processes to be expected in the designed environments via agent-based simulations with differentiated agent populations and decision processes”.
• Analytics & Insights – “data analytics and human behavior modelling to design healthy and productive working environments that are tailor-made to overall and individual wellness”.
• Virtual Reality – “demonstrating the remarkable possibilities immersive technologies will offer architects to collaborate and design in augmented reality”.