The Guangzhou Opera House in China 2003-10 graces the cover of this superb tribute. Zaha Hadid was a revolutionary architect who for many years built almost nothing, despite winning critical acclaim. At the time of her unexpected death in 2016, Hadid was firmly established among the elite of world architecture, recognised as the first woman to win both the Pritzker Prize for architecture and the RIBA Royal Gold Medal, but above all as a giver of new forms, the first great architect of the noughties. Some even said her audacious, futuristic designs were unbuildable. Included here are her revolutionary designs for a fire station, ski jump, Science Centre, museum extensions, railway stations, Zaragoza bridge pavilion, Evelyn Grace Academy, Glasgow Riverside museum, Broad Art Museum, Galaxy SOHO, Jockey Club Innovation Tower, Messner Mountain Museum Corones, and the Investcorp Buildings among them. During the latter years of her life, Hadid's daring visions became a reality, bringing a unique new architectural language to cities and structures as varied as the Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art in Cincinnati; the MAXXI Museum in Rome and the London 2012 Olympics Aquatics Centre. From her early sharply angled buildings to later more fluid architecture that made floors, ceilings, walls, and furniture part of an overall design, this essential introduction presents key examples of Hadid's pioneering practice. She was an artist, as much as an architect, who fought to break the old rules and crafted her own 21st-century universe. 21 x 26cm, 96 pages. Packed with colour photos and designs, new from Taschen.
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