Zaha-Hadid

On 1 May 2026, “Zaha Hadid: I Think There Should Be No End to Experimentation” opens at LUMA Arles in the Parc des Ateliers, Arles, France, running until Spring 2027. The zaha hadid paintings luma arles survey, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist with Arthur Fouray and Lucas Jacques-Witz and produced with the Zaha Hadid Foundation, occupies The Tower, Archives Gallery and Cherry Tree Gallery inside Frank Gehry’s 56-metre stainless-steel pile and reframes every acrylic, ink wash and competition perspective Hadid produced between her 1977 AA thesis and the 2012 Heydar Aliyev Center as the operative drawings of her architecture, not its decoration. ...

Five architect-led installations defined Milan Design Week 2026 — and the loudest of them is Lina Ghotmeh’s 17-metre pink labyrinth of 18 MDF modules dropped inside the Cortile d’Onore of Palazzo Litta. The next four — Zaha Hadid Architects’ titanium organism for Audi at Portrait Milano, Rem Koolhaas’s circular Forum for the inaugural Salone Contract at Rho Fiera, the BBPR-designed Torre Velasca opened to the public for the first time in its 67-year life, and Alessandro Scandurra’s 16-metre ring of Ukrainian school rubble in the cloisters of Università Statale — are not accessories. Together they form the architectural spine of the festival the Milan Design Week 2026 guide tries to map. The question this article answers is narrow and useful: which architects led the week, what did they actually build, and what does the line they drew through the city tell you about where the festival’s centre of gravity has moved? ...