Zaha Hadid: Architecture

Description

'Zaha Hadid: Architecture' is published in the occasion of the eponymous personal exhibition shown at the MAK, Vienna. The bilingual volume, in German and English, for the first time documents Hadid's most recent projects and gives a comprehensive survey of the oeuvre of one of the most renowned proponents of seminal contemporary architecture.

The publication features numerous, mostly coloured illustrations, including design drawings, models and hitherto largely unpublished 'major paintings' by Zaha Hadid, as well as photographs of projects built or under construction, providing a fundamental insight into all stages of the project development, from the abstract concept to the blueprint and its constructional implementation.

One special feature of this publication is the documentation of the 'Ice-Storm' installation developed especially for the MAK exhibition-- a 'spatial experiment' covering a floor space of 300 square metres with eight tons in weight and seven metres in height that provides the public with an opportunity to get an active feel for Hadid's radically new language of shape and space.