Zaha Hadid.
Publisher: Guggenheim Museum Publications; Brand: Guggenheim Museum; Guggenheim Museum
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 197
ISBN-13: 9780892073467
Subjects: Hadid, Zaha -- Exhibitions; Architecture, Modern -- 20th century -- Exhibitions
Genres: Exhibitions.
Description: The first woman to be awarded the distinguished Pritzker Architecture Prize, in 2004, Zaha Hadid is internationally known for projects that have literally "shifted the geometry of buildings." The Iraqi-born, London-based architect has collaborated with the Guggenheim on several projects leading up to this comprehensive retrospective, including the design for the museum's exhibition "The Great Utopia" in 1992. Each of Hadid's dynamic and innovative works builds on over 30 years of experimentation and research in the interrelated fields of urbanism, architecture and design. Hadid's most recent work incorporates smooth surfaces where walls seem to melt, floors curving upward, and ceilings that appear to compress, bend and expand. In her designs, architecture emerges not as an isolated object but out of the surrounding landscape and urban environment, and as a result of its users' movements and paths.
Notes: "Published on the occasion of the exhibition Zaha Hadid, organized by Germano Celant and Mónica Ramírez-Montagut, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, June 3-October 25, 2006"--T.p. verso.
Table of contents: title: Zaha Hadid : adventure in architecture -- Germano Celant; title: In the nature of design materials : the instruments of Zaha Hadid's vision -- Joseph Giovannini; title: The modernity of Zaha Hadid -- Detlef Mertins; title: They skyscraper revitalized : differentiation, interface, navigation -- Patrik Schumacher; title: Interview : Alvin Boyarsky talks with Zaha Hadid (October and December 1987) --; title: Plates --; title: A conceptual chronology of Zaha Hadid's major exhibitions -- Mónica Ramírez-Montagut; title: Project history.