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For over 20 years, Zaha Hadid, the Iraqi-born, English-educated architect, has symbolized the vanguard of contemporary architecture. Her continually new forms stun the world of design with their commitment to revolutionary forms. This text - a record of her entire career - includes sketches, plans and models that offer a complete overview of her programmatic and aesthetic concerns. Texts written by the architect and her office reveal solutions to each project.
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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is excellent value for anyone and by any means. If you know Hadid's work - you need this to keep up-to-date. If you don't - this book stands alone on the merit of the art, let alone architecture.
By now, Hadid builds more than before; this will constitute a revised if not a new volume in due course. The opening essay and the concluding list of projects are a great bonus.
The easy-to-follow format, brilliant editing/sequencing, and top quality printing make this a joy to read, browse through and simply delve into Hadid's dreamworld...
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Good Architecture? What am I looking at!
13 Mar 2000
Format:Paperback
There is no doubt in my mind that Zaha Hadid is a great architect. Some of the spatial ideas presented in this book are quite appealing, but that's only about 10 or 12 of the pages. What is going on in all the other projects? How do I move through these spaces? The paintings and graphics are cool, but where's the building? Where's the structure? I see how the built stuff is standing, but what about the unbuilt? This is more a criticism of the book than Hadid, since I can't really tell what she's doing in the first place. A lot of this presentation reminds me of when I was in school and people would present a lot of flash and zippy graphics of very rich process, but their building would fall apart with the first step inside the front door (if you could find it in the first place.) I originally got this book to study how to make this dynamic type of architecture work in the real world, but it doesn't take me much further than I was already. If you are very interested in this sort of architecture, don't stop with this book. Check out Frank Gehry: Complete works and anything else with CONSTRUCTION drawings in it, along with the process and the prettys. What makes good designers great is how they make the idea real and workable. I wish I could have seen more of Hadid's solutions better in this book.
If you want to just deal with graphics and ideas, Hollywood might have a place for you.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
excellent overview with great imagery
4 May 1999
Format:Paperback
This book allows for either a new comer or seasoned architect to truly begin to understand the intentions of a great architect. The book remarkably shows an in depth look into the process, motivation and presentational work of one of architectures few succesful female architects. The quality of images is very good and thorough. The one area where this book doesn't completely fulfill is built work. The drawings and gestural models are elegant and spatial but can't fully encompass the feeling of the true structure. A more indepth look at actual built spaces would make this book unable to pass up. Despite this flaw, this book is definately one every post-modern architecture fan should add to his/her library.
11 of 15 people found the following review helpful
zaha: imagination and magic
24 July 2001
Format:Paperback
I think this book has more to it than technical drawings could ever give. It's an artistic sight of what and how architecture should be thought and viewed like. Colours, shapes and forms seem to spring out the pages of this book. Go out there and see it four yourself, it's not a book about construction, it's a book about ideas.
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