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Welcome to the future. This title presents the iconic work of a singular architect. In 2004, Zaha Hadid became the first woman to win the Pritzker Prize. In the past decade, she has completed a plethora of structures including the Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art in Cincinnati, the Phaeno Science Center in Wolfsburg, Germany and the Central Building of the new BMW Assembly Plant in Leipzig. There is no doubt that Zaha Hadid has joined the elite of world architecture with her recent work, her audacious and futuristic-looking designs having catapulted her to international fame. Born in Baghdad, Iraq and educated in London, where her practice is based, Hadid has been shaking up the foundations of architecture for over 30 years and is now the subject of a massive Taschen monograph. Covering her complete works to date, and all of her exciting new work from Dubai to Guangzhou, this XL tome clearly demonstrates the progression of Hadid's career - including not only buildings but also furniture and interior designs - with in-depth texts, spectacular photos, and her own drawings. Also included is a special section with translucent vellum paper allowing multiple layers of designs to be viewed at once or separately.
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Format:Hardcover
That's all to be said. Google her and have your mind blown. This book is as good a collection as you'll get.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
You can throw the rest of her books away
2 Dec 2009
Format:Hardcover
Bought this the day I saw it in a bookstore. Paid the discounted price here--and worth every penny, but I do start to regret buying past books about her since I no longer need them after having this one. The only other book of Hadid's works that is comparable to this one is the all-inclusive El Croquis Hadid collection.
The vellum prints are helpful to understand her layer technique, but also a little bit gimmicky--and not that helpful if you happened to need to read each drawing individually in detail. Had it been printed on white paper I could have done the same (comparing layers) by scanning them and put them together on computer.
And some of her paintings can never be printed too big--if the original is like 9' tall, then you need a big book to reproduce it. As far as I can remember this is the biggest book ever published for her stuff.
Not that it will ever happen--wish it had included some writings to locate her stuff among architectures in the past decade.
The vellum prints are helpful to understand her layer technique, but also a little bit gimmicky--and not that helpful if you happened to need to read each drawing individually in detail. Had it been printed on white paper I could have done the same (comparing layers) by scanning them and put them together on computer.
And some of her paintings can never be printed too big--if the original is like 9' tall, then you need a big book to reproduce it. As far as I can remember this is the biggest book ever published for her stuff.
Not that it will ever happen--wish it had included some writings to locate her stuff among architectures in the past decade.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
A book - and an architecture - with its own sense of gravity
1 May 2010
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
First off you should be warned this is a massive book. You can not take it with you. You can not put it on your bookshelf. It is destined for the coffee table. It is the most comprehensive Hadid book to date - by far. Nothing comes close to covering the amount of projects, interviews, and concepts. Given the books size and full page photos, what becomes strangely apparent is the sloppiness of Hadid's detailing, especially on early projects. You really see the marred edges of concrete, kinks in the poured forms, missed connections. It's almost as if an architecture practice this heavy on concept can't be bothered to figure out control joints, reveals, and drainage.
This is actually an asset for the book. I think too often we obsess over postage sized renderings of unbuilt work. Well, here (some) of the work is built, and the images are so large that there is no way to hide the imperfections. Case in point - Hadid's "Landscape formation 1" - the curves aren't entirely smooth. Actually they are rather kinked by the formwork used to pour the concrete. The edges are marred by use, broken away because a chamfered edge wasn't specified. Concrete and glass come together rather abruptly, with no frame, no insulation, no standard practice of architecture considered. The actual book, however, is well constructed, researched, and would no doubt be the slickest addition to your coffee table possible. It's a book you look at (not in but really AT) when you walk by. It has a presence in the room. Opening it means clearing your schedule for a while.
This is actually an asset for the book. I think too often we obsess over postage sized renderings of unbuilt work. Well, here (some) of the work is built, and the images are so large that there is no way to hide the imperfections. Case in point - Hadid's "Landscape formation 1" - the curves aren't entirely smooth. Actually they are rather kinked by the formwork used to pour the concrete. The edges are marred by use, broken away because a chamfered edge wasn't specified. Concrete and glass come together rather abruptly, with no frame, no insulation, no standard practice of architecture considered. The actual book, however, is well constructed, researched, and would no doubt be the slickest addition to your coffee table possible. It's a book you look at (not in but really AT) when you walk by. It has a presence in the room. Opening it means clearing your schedule for a while.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Great Book
3 Mar 2011
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
The Item is amazing. Great book with quite a few quality drawings and numbers of photos. Determinately a great gift. Had a little problem with shipping order,but at the end it all got taken care of.
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