MAXXI

Rome’s 2010 national museum of twenty-first-century arts, organized as a network of crossing gallery ribbons.

Black stairs, white curving walls, and overlapping bridges produce flows instead of conventional exhibition rooms.

It is one of Hadid’s major public cultural works after receiving the Pritzker Prize.

Its relationship to the former barracks site is also central to reading the project.

Contemporary

Architect Zaha Hadid