Art Books

Zaha Hadid's Paintings: Imagining Architecture Desley Luscombe Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd

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...

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...

See full description See full description

Top specs

See all
  • Themes Architecture, Painting - Drawing, Theory & History of Art
  • Language English
  • Number of pages Number of pages 176
  • Cover Cover Hardcover
  • Year of publication Year of publication 2025
  • Publisher Publisher Lund Humphries Publishers
66 25 €
Delivery Thu, 12 Nov - Wed, 18 Nov
14,00 €   shipping cost
Sent from Greece
From Book Odyssey 4.9 (29)
Greece
10 pieces
See Books on the page of Book Odyssey

Learn more about invoicing

Description & Specifications

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

Important information

Specifications are collected from official manufacturer websites. Please verify the specifications before proceeding with your final purchase. If you notice any problem you can report it here.

66,25 €
14,00 €   shipping cost