Zaha Hadid Cincinnati Contemporary Art Museum

With the centers opening zaha hadid became the first woman to ever design an american art museum. Museum designed by a woman and hailed by the new york times as the most important american building to be completed since the cold war. Cincinnatis contemporary arts center is the first built project in the.
zaha hadid cincinnati contemporary art museum

Since 2003 the museum is housed in an iconic building designed by zaha hadid the rosenthal center for contemporary art.

Zaha hadid cincinnati contemporary art museum. The contemporary arts center also known as cac is a non collecting museum in cincinnati ohio. Designed by pritzker prize award winner zaha hadid and opened in 2003 the rosenthal center for contemporary art allows cac to serve its organizational mission to unite art and people in a provocative architectural environment. United states by celebrated london based architect zaha hadid. More than another example of the bilbao effect the build it and they will come attitude that so many cities have taken on after the success of gehrys building in bilbao the cac is simply the latest building in a long line of projects that the city of.

The rosenthal center was the first us. One of the architectural treasures of cincinnati is the lois richard rosenthal center for contemporary art home of the contemporary arts center cac. The firm was founded in 1980 by hadid who passed away in 2016 and is now led by patrik schumacher. In 2003 the cac moved into the lois richard rosenthal center for contemporary art designed by zaha hadid.

The cacs origins date back to 1939 when betty pollak rauh peggy frank crawford and rita rentschler cushman founded the the modern art society in cincinnati. Cac was designed by zaha hadid architects as a monument to modern art. Cornett mark stedtefeld 2001 2003. Zaha hadid associate architect.

T the rosenthal center itself was and remains one of the largest and most dynamic contemporary.