Zaha Hadid: Architecture

by Andreas Ruby, Peter Noever, Patrik Schumacher

Book Overview

As Zaha Hadid has put it, "There are 360 degrees, so why stick to one?" Why indeed? Hadid's architectural conceptions confound one with impossibilities, with floating buildings, indecipherable volumes, untraceable paths of light, spaces seemingly less related to real, livable space than something from a virtual dimension. Hers is a visionary architecture built in fantastic, streamlined paintings, innovative, whimsical 3-D models, and monumentally...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3775713646
• ISBN13: 9783775713641
• Release Date: August 2003
• Publisher: Hatje Cantz
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 2.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 9.4" x 12.5"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher