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The Works of Zaha Hadid
October 17th, 2016
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The controversial “starchitect” as some would call her, had a stellar architectural career until her death. With glittering portfolio littering the globe from Baku, Azerbaijan to Guangzhou China, it is hard to question the genius of the woman Zaha Hadid. While there were controversies and negative press, her works are evidently her legacy, as the world lost one of its best architects. It wouldn’t be far-fetched to link her appreciation for angles, lines, geometry and appreciation of space to her first course of study – mathematics from the University of Beirut – before completing her architectural training at the London’s Architectural Association in 1977. Her works are not limited to buildings, though. And in truth, she started out as an interior designer in the early 1980s making tables and sofas, before her building endeavors. And the successes of her building works have also yielded collaborations beyond building to jewelry, footwear, handbags, vases and even swimwear. One of the projects (different from building) she worked on before her death was a luxury homeware line called the Zaha Hadid’s luxury homeware line, producing teacups, candle holder, chess set and much more. Let’s focus a bit on what won her world-wide acclaim and examine them. It was her very first completed building works – the Vitra Fire Station – that truly catapulted her to the architectural limelight. From afar, the angles of the concrete walls and the pointy portico screams see me, and indeed gained appreciation from critics. She won her first Sterling prize in 2010 for the MAXXI National Museum of XXI Century art that employed dynamic panels and flexible layouts make this work of hers stand out. She wouldn’t have to wait for her next Sterling prize, though, as she won it again in 2011 for the Evelyn Grace Academy, London, a win that made her feel acknowledged in Britain. Other notable works of hers include the Phaeno science center, Wolfsburg, Bridge Pavilion, Zaragoza, Guangzhou opera house, Guangzhou, Sheikh Zayed Bridge, Abu Dhabi, Riverside museum, Glasgow, London aquatics center, Stratford, Heydar Aliyev cultural center, Baku, and Galaxy Soho, Beijing. One of the things that have been consistent with her works is their originality and a strong vision of how she perceives space. This consistency won her the Pritzker Architecture Prize – the highest Architecture Prize in the world – in 2004. Ada Louise Huxtable – an architecture critic – in describing her work says “Hadid’s fragmented geometry and fluid mobility do more than create an abstract, dynamic beauty; this is a body of work that explores and expresses the world we live in.” Can you Zoom to her works? Image courtesy of: http://www.dezeen.com/2016/03/31/zaha-hadid-life-in-architecture-projects/ |
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