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| Dubai Opera House, Dubai, United Arab Emirates |
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| Guggenheim Hermitage Museum,Vilnius, Lithuania |
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| Cairo Expo City, Cairo, Egypt |
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| King Abdullah II House of Culture & Art, Amman, Jordan |
For me it’s highly futuristic, fluid, organic, sculptural, and I can’t imagine the complex structure they use to build those. These are some of the architecture works of Zaha Hadid, one of the most prominent and visionary architects in our era.
Architect is a profession dominated by men. The I-wannabe-like-him list in architecture world is a long one. It’s filled by legends such as Frank Llyod Wright, Le Corbusier, Frank Gehry, Tadao Ando, Santiago Calatrava, and I can continue it for another hundred words.
Before Zaha Hadid, I don’t think the I-wannabe-like-her list in architecture was even exist. She conveys womanliness in her design. When you see a building, you’ll know if it’s her work.
Some of her designs are too complicated to be built that they still sit in her office, waiting for the building technology to catch up to her.
Time magazine finally recognised her brilliance and included her in the list of 100 Most Influential People in The World.
To check out the article, click here.
Written by her fellow (fashion) designer Donna Karan, famous for the DKNY brand, this article briefly explains Karan’s personal experience with Hadid and also with Hadid’s design. It’s an interesting and in a way credible point of view, since Karan’s artistic sense as a designer is also undoubted.
She captured Hadid in an engaging way through description such as “Her work is light and lyrical, like an Asian artisan's brushstroke captured forever in the environment”.
Different from most of the article about Hadid that usually start with list her awards and achievement, or mention the list of fashion label that have collaborated with her, this article offers something that not so may people have with Hadid: personal experience of having conversation and working together with her.
Written in a highly visual language, this article introduces Zaha Hadid to the readers from other field of knowledge, not only the design field.
Image sources:
Dubai Opera House, Dubai, United Arab Emirates: http://www.worldarab.net/sites/default/files/images/dubai-opera-house_sq_0.jpg
Guggenheim Hermitage Museum,Vilnius, Lithuania: http://www.tuvie.com/wp-content/uploads/guggenheim-hermitage-miseum-by-zaha-hadid3.jpg
Cairo Expo City, Cairo, Egypt: http://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2009/06/zha_cairo-expo-city_03_sq.jpg
King Abdullah II House of Culture & Art, Amman, Jordan: http://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2010/02/dzn_sq_King-Abdullah-II-House-of-Culture-Art_Lobby01.jpg
I love the designs! the opera house looks like a futuristic bunker though ;) A very inspiring woman indeed!
ReplyDeleteWow, these designs are really creative and out of the ordinary! My first impression was that the Cairo Expo City and Dubai Opera House were melting. But these are really eye-catching. Reminds me of the basket building... http://www.foundshit.com/giant-longaberger-basket/
ReplyDelete@Paulina: I agree! Zaha Hadid's lecturer Rem Koolhas once said that Hadid is like "a planet in her own orbit". Her visions of architecture are insipirational for me.
ReplyDelete@Priscilla: haha I've seen the giant basket building. it is very eye-catching, but in different way I think..
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