Title: Zaha Hadid
First published: 1989
Description: "Zaha Hadid's highly inventive and seemingly unbuildable designs have always defied conventional ideas of architectural space and construction. The BMW Central Building in Leipzig, Germany, a recent addition to her visionary, gravity-defying, fearlessly bold, and rapidly increasing body of built work, succeeds in creating space through lines of motion. The heart of the BMW factory complex, the Central Building is the dynamic focal point of the entire plant that visually, physically, and experientially sustains a sense of animation. With the constant movement supplied by employees, visitors, and automobiles and its audacious, abstracted geometry of forms and lines, the structure challenges the notion of building as a static art." "Zaha Hadid, the 2004 Pritzker Prize Laureate and the first woman to receive the honor, is celebrated for her unbuilt works as well as her built works, including the Phaeno Science Center (Wolfsburg, Germany), Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art (Cincinnati, Ohio), Bergisel Ski Jump (Innsbruck, Austria), and Vitra Fire Station (Weil am Rhein, Germany)."--Jacket.
Subjects: Buildings, structures, Deconstructivism (Architecture), Architecture, Modern, Industrial Architecture, Museum architecture, Exhibitions, Architects, Architectural photography, Architecture, Industrial, Bayerische Motoren Werke, Architecture in art, Modern Architecture, OUR Brockhaus selection, Architektur, Women architects, Individual architects, Individual Architect, Architecture, Public, Commercial, or Industrial Buildings, Architecture / Individual Architect, Architectural Design, Urban Architecture, Catalogues raisonnés, Architectural criticism, Bmw automobiles, Architecture, germany, Architecture, designs and plans, Architects, biography, Art centers, Designs and plans, Art museum architecture, Space (Architecture), History, Contemporary Arts Center (Cincinnati, Ohio), Architecture, modern, 20th century, Architecture, united states, Art, modern, Buildings, Interviews, International Architectural practice, Art museums, Pictorial works, Fire stations
Places: Germany, Great Britain, Leipzig, Leipzig (Germany)
People: Zaha Hadid
Time periods: 20th century