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Zaha Hadid: Complete Works 1979-2013

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transforms into a sports stadium; marsh grasses inspire a cluster of kinked apartment towers; the galaxy’s

This month marks seven years since the unexpected passing of the British-Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid, at what was undoubtedly the height of her historic career. Her influence on international architecture can’t be overstated. She was part of a generation of architects who both redefined and invented the forms that would characterize contemporary design. And as an Arab woman garnering international fame, she challenged “who” an architect could be. Winter offers a playful glimpse into Zaha’s world, inviting the young readers to approach things with Zaha’s perspective, who was able to see beyond everyday objects. In an excerpt from her book, Winter depicts the young Zaha standing on a carpet. “[She] looks long and hard at patterns in her Persian carpet and sees how the shapes and colors flow into each other, like the dunes and rivers and marshes,” writes Winter. With colorful illustrations, Jeanette Winter tells the story of Zaha and how she became a radical architect. Starting from the beginning, she depicts Zaha as a child living with her family in Baghdad, being inspired by the country’s beautiful rivers, dunes, and above all ruins of ancient cities. Winter then depicts Zaha’s unbuilt Cardiff Bay Opera House, which was slated for Cardiff, Wales, and the controversial story of how her winning design never received the support needed for construction. “The idea that… the place was designed by an Arab lady interested in abstract painting, did not sit well with many of the Welsh,” writes John Seabrook in an article for the New Yorker. After facing discrimination from the architecture world, Zaha vowed to never let a piece she designed go to waste. “I made a conscious decision not to stop,” said Zaha of the unfortunate incident, which Winter uses in her book.

unconventional ideas. The book closes with a guide to the buildings featured in the story, noteworthy

Hadid’s first built project, the Vitra Fire Station in Weil am Rhein, Germany, exemplifies how she used unconventional forms in her work. Constructed in the early 1990s, the small, two-story structure stretches tightly and narrowly across the land it occupies. Sharp, angular forms jut out into space. It feels like a moment of action frozen in time. Little People, BIG DREAMS is a best-selling series of books and educational games that explore the lives of outstanding people, from designers and artists to scientists and activists. All of them achieved incredible things, yet each began life as a child with a dream.Throughout her training at London's Architectural Association, and her work with Rem Koolhaas at OMA, to the establishment of her own worldwide architectural practice, Zaha Hadid has been acclaimed for her vanguard architectonic language. Only a handful of her projects have been built-all to great critical success- and each new project astonishes the world of design with its commitment to revolutionary forms and ideas. As a result, she has an enormous following of students and practitioners, visionaries and builders. Zaha remembers the grasses in the marshes swaying, and sees tall buildings dancing like grass…Zaha looks at stones in a stream, and builds an opera house like the pebbles in the water…Zaha looks up at the stars and galaxies and sees swirling buildings.” This book is gorgeously illustrated, following a very similar style to all of the other books I've read that are a part of this series. It's simple, colorful, to the point, and excellent for the typical audience. As usual, I am a huge fan. Even better, the book also features extended information about Zaha Hadid at the end. Leaving her home in Baghdad, she studied architecture in London and made quite a splash with her unconventional building designs. She entered contests and her designs won. As she became more famous, she received phone calls from other countries to design buildings that imitated flight or moving water. Soon, Zaha designed an art gallery in the United States, and from there, she was jet-setting around the world designing projects for housing and public use. She won the Pritzker Prize, the most prestigious award for architecture, and she was the youngest person ever to win. Again, the story is followed by a short timeline showing the most important steps on this person's journey and we have some ideas for further reading, both about Zaha Hadid and other installments in this series.

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