January 22, 2014 (Raleigh, NC) – The 2013-2014 MODTriangle Architecture Movie Series concludes on Wednesday, February 5, at the Raleigh Grande Cinema with a special screening of “Lioness Among Lions: The Architect Zaha Hadid.”
Winner of the prestigious Pritzker prize in 2004 and the Praemium Imperiale in 2009, Zaha Hadid, an English-Iraqi architect and designer, has long been a controversial figure. The film, first released in 2010, spotlights her visionary achievements around the world, including the MAXXI contemporary art museum in Rome, the CMA-CGM tower in Marseille, the Guangzhou Opera, and a performing arts center in Abu Dhabi.
“Lioness Among Lions” also provides an overview of Hadid’s projects and features commentaru by Tom Krens of the Guggenheim Foundation, architect Patrick Schumacher, photographer Hélène Binet, publisher Francesco Dalco, and fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld.
Hosted by North Carolina Modernist Houses (NCMH) and sponsored by Sarah Sonke of MODTriangle Real Estate and Auctions, the film begins at 7:30 p.m.
VMZINC, the Contemporary Art Museum, Kontek, and Alison Steele of A+S Design have sponsored the entire movie series. BuildSense is sponsoring the “Lioness Among Lions” screening.
Tickets to the film are $9 and are available at the NCMH Ticket Desk inside the theater. Mod Squad members are admitted free. Proceeds benefit NCMH’s ongoing documentation, preservation, and promotion efforts for Modernist residential design throughout North Carolina. For more information on NCMH, visit www.ncmodernist.org.
The Raleigh Grande is located at 4840 Grove Barton Road, Raleigh, NC 27613 (919-266-2012). For directions and other details: www.carolinacinemas.com/raleigh/.
About NC Modernist Houses:
NC Modernist Houses is an award-winning 501C3 nonprofit established in 2007 and dedicated to documenting, preserving, and promoting Modernist residential design. The website is now the largest open digital archive for Modernist residential design in America. NCMH also hosts popular architecture events every month, giving the public access to the most exciting residential architecture, past and present. These tours and events raise awareness and help preserve these "livable works of art" for future generations. For more information: www.ncmodernist.org.
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Zaha's Pritzker is like Obama's Nobel.
Explain that, please, Miles.
Seriously, aren't we even trying to have intelligent debate here any longer, or has TC devolved so badly that we've all just given up? Does Zaha's work *not* merit recognition at the highest level of the discipline?
Give the first black president a Nobel Peace Prize, but not because of anything he's done.
And how does that relate to Zaha……? I'm seriously asking. Perhaps Obama didn't "deserve" the Nobel, there are reasonable arguments to be made for that point of view. How are there reasonable arguments that Zaha doesn't deserve a Pritzker?
I mean a prize for "peace" is kind of nebulous; a prize for buildings is really not.
a more apt description of Obama's prize would really be more like this:
a huge global sign of relief for the first American president that isn't George 'dubya' Bush.
face it. you sound like a racist woman hater unless you can come up with a good couple jokes or some thoughtfulness to get out of this mess.
It seems like what you are saying goes like this: "this architect has made so much work that I consider terrible in my oh so important and well researched opinion that the only explanation for her being given a prize is white men needing to cover their tracks a bit by doling out some accolades to the first non-white woman they could, because the work is obviously of no merit." what a mine field...
glad its not my job to prove that you don't have nuclear weapons.
As for Obama, escalated drone strikes and a policy slightly less fucked up than Bush does not merit a peace prize. Being Black does not merit one either. MLK deserves a peace prize not Obama. A peace prize has nothing to do with race or even overcoming race and achieving the presidency it has to do with being an instrument for peace.
As for ZAHA, while I dislike her work for the most part, it is a unique part of architectural history for the better or worse. Either way, the prize is deserved imo.
As for being a woman architect, I don't give a flying fuck about personal adversity when judging architecture. It is insignificant. Architecture is about Architecture not personal triumph. If ZAHA had a wiener he/she would still deserve the prize.
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