Zaha Hadid is widely regarded as a visionary and influential architect, who gained global recognition until her untimely death in 2016. This book is the first to focus on how painting was fundamental to her practice. In the first 20 years of her career, she earned her reputation through "cartographic architecture": works that were widely published in architecture magazines and exhibited, but remained largely unbuilt. Influenced by the Suprematists, she used her paintings as design tools, and abstraction as an exploratory framework for her architectural imagination. The book extensively draws on interviews with Hadid's contemporaries and her team of assistants, as well as previous presentations and in-depth interviews. It examines selected paintings in detail, critically evaluating them in the broader context of 20th-century art – in relation to the Suprematists, de Stijl, Cubism, and Futurism – and provides insights into how Hadid used the paintings to develop architectural and spatial ideas, which she later realized in her buildings. The paintings were created during a defining period in architecture, just before the shift from hand to computer-aided design, and many of Hadid’s works foreshadow the possibilities of digital and virtual reality.
Pages: 176, Dimensions: 24x24cm
Manufacturer
- Publisher
- Lund Humphries Publishers
- Language
- English
- Subtitle
- -
- Cover
- Hardcover
- Number of Pages
- 176
- Release Date
- 16/01/2025
- Publication Date
- 2025
- Award
- -
- Dimensions
- -
- Art Movement
- Cubism
- Art Albums
- No
- Subjects
- Architecture, Painting - Drawing, Theory & History of Art
- ISBN-13
- 9781848226845
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