Zaha Hadid. Architecture is published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name at the MAK in Vienna. The book is the first to document the artist´s newest projects and presents an extensive overview over the oeuvre of one of the most renowned exponents of contemporary architecture: Zaha Hadid, who has always been in search of a visionary aesthetics covering all areas from urban planning to interior and furniture design.
This publication contains numerous colour illustrations of designs, models and - as yet mostly unpublished - Major Paintings by Hadid as well as photographs of buildings realised and under construction, granting profound insights into all stages of project development from the abstract concept to its technical implementation. The texts by the architecture critic Andreas Ruby and Patrik Schuhmacher, a Zaha Hadid Architects, London, project partner, are integral parts of the book shedding profound light onto the architect´s oeuvre.
Another special feature is the documentation of the installation Ice-Storm especially developed for the MAK exhibition, a "space experiment" with a surface area of 300 m2, a weight of eight tons and height of seven metres, providing the audience with a possibility for an active approach to Hadid´s radically new language of form and space.
The architect:
Zaha Hadid, born 1950 in Bagdad. From 1972-1977 studies at the renowned Architectural Association (AA) in London. Soon after, she became a partner at the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) and taught at the AA with her OMA colleagues Rem Koolhaas and Elia Zenghelis. Since 1979, she has also headed her own architectural firm, and until 1987 she kept an own studio at the AA. From then on, she has been holding the Kenzo Tange Chair at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University and the Sullivan Chair at the Chicago School of Architecture. Since the winter semester 2000/2001, she also holds the chair for architecture design-1 at the Universtity of Applied Arts in Vienna. Her first large-scale international success was in 1983, when she won first prize at the competition for the project The Peak in Hong Kong. Her first large-scale realized project, which also gained her international fame, was the Vitra fire engine house at Weil am Rhein, finished in 1993.
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