Mathematics: The Winton Gallery – Science Museum Londen
Zaha Hadid Architects
Londen, Exhibition Rd (Kensington)
2014 – 2016
Zaha Hadid
If you know me a little, then you know that I am a fan of architect Zaha Hadid. Already in my student days I followed her projects and after she designed the new Port House in Antwerp I was even a bigger fan. If we are somewhere and there is a Hadid project in the area, then I must have seen it … Also when we left for a city trip to London. In the Science Museum, the architects had designed the mathematics exhibition.
Mathematics
Total work of art
They wanted to make mathematics tangible by using the movements of the wind on an airplane. And not any aircraft, but the one that hangs in the middle of the room. The Handley Page from 1929 is also the largest piece in the exhibition. All displays and even the benches are organized by the wind waves. This makes it a total work of art.
The Winton Gallery
The Science Museum has compiled a video about the 10 “must see” objects in the exhibition. They mention, among other things, the aircraft hanging in the middle and the most powerful computer for WWII, the Enigma. But they also find a stargazer and a cupboard with standard weights from around the world collected by English diplomats worth viewing.
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