When architect Dame Zaha Hadid (CBE) died at the age of 65 in March 2016, she left behind a legacy of decades of award-winning pioneering architecture around the world.
Recognized for architecture with unique and innovative forms, large-scale projects and emblematic buildings , Zaha Hadid developed throughout her career a distinctive visual style that permeated her architectural practice with fluid, expressive and radical forms.
The first architect to win the Pritzker Prize , her mix of techniques perfectly evokes the harmonies and dissonances that come together in modern life. It achieved enormous success. Throughout his life, numerous books collected his work, and he received prestigious commissions and accumulated awards and honors, including the RIBA gold medal.
A British-Iraqi citizen of Muslim roots, Hadid defied clichés and categories, focusing on creating large, beautiful buildings in keeping with her curvaceous style. He designed hundreds of iconic and striking structures around the world, including the MAXXI Museum in Rome, the Guangzhou Opera House in China, and the Phaeno Science Center and BMW Headquarters, both in Germany. In 2006, the Guggenheim in New York hosted a career-spanning retrospective to date, the latest in a long line of institutions around the world that have scheduled exhibitions on Hadid. His drawings were included in the groundbreaking 1988 exhibition Deconstructivism in Architecture, curated by Philip Johnson and Mark Wigley at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The pioneering use of parametricism and the neofuturism that he displayed in them was decisive in discovering that he would soon become a key figure in world architecture. The former student and later professional partner of Rem Koolhaas, she founded her own studio, Zaha Hadid Architects, in London in 1980, from where she achieved global success.
Hardcover, 21 x 26 cm, 0.62 kg.
96 pages
Edition: Spanish
