Authors:Todd Gannon,  Zaha Hadid,
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Pre
Keywords: architecture, source, book, books, building, hadid, bmw, central, zaha
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2006-08-10
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1568985363
ISBN-13: 9781568985367

Zaha Hadid’s highly inventive and seemingly unbuildable designs have defied conventional ideas of architectural space and construction. The BMW Central Building in Leipzig, Germany, is no exception. It is the heart of the BMW factory complex?the dynamic focal point of the entire plant that visually, physically, and experientially sustains a sense of animation and motion. With an audacious and abstracted geometry of forms and lines, the BMW Central Building challenges the notion of building as static and is definitive evidence of architecture as art. Zaha Hadid: BMW Central Building, the

Author: Philip Jodidio
Publisher: TASCHEN America Llc
Keywords: works, complete, hadid, zaha
Number of Pages: 500
Published: 2009-09-08
List price: $150.00
ISBN-10: 3836502941
ISBN-13: 9783836502948

In 2004, Zaha Hadid became the first woman to win the Pritzker Prize. In the past decade, she has completed a plethora of structures including the Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art in Cincinnati, the Phaeno Science Center in Wolfsburg, Germany and the Central Building of the new BMW Assembly Plant in Leipzig. There is no doubt that Zaha Hadid has joined the �?©lite of world architecture with her recent work, her audacious and futuristic-looking designs having catapulted her to international fame.Born in Baghdad, Iraq and educated in London, where her practice is based, Hadid has been shak

Authors:Detlef Mertins, Patrik Schumacher, Joseph Giovannini
Publisher: Guggenheim Museum
Keywords: hadid, zaha
Number of Pages: 197
Published: 2006-08-15
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 0892073462
ISBN-13: 9780892073467

The first woman to be awarded the distinguished Pritzker Architecture Prize, in 2004, Zaha Hadid is internationally known for projects that have literally "shifted the geometry of buildings." The Iraqi-born, London-based architect has collaborated with the Guggenheim on several projects leading up to this comprehensive retrospective, including the design for the museum’s exhibition The Great Utopia in 1992. Each of Hadid’s dynamic and innovative works builds on over 30 years of experimentation and research in the interrelated fields of urbanism, architecture and design. True to Had

Authors:Editors of Phaidon Press, zaha hadid, toshiko mori
Publisher: Phaidon Pre
Keywords: critics, architects
Number of Pages: 468
Published: 2005-04-01
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 0714844411
ISBN-13: 9780714844411

Who are the world’s most exciting up-and-coming architects? 10 x 10_2 has 100 definitive answers, provided by 10 influential curators, educators and architects?including Zaha Hadid, Toshiko Mori, and Kurt Foster. Each featured architect is allotted four generously sized, photo-rich pages, with concise yet informative texts. The projects are distinguished by a rare combination of inventiveness, thoughtful use of materials and sheer beauty. In Zurich, Christian Kerez stacked and cantilevered solid concrete shear walls between large expanses of glass to create a multifamily residence of pri

Authors:Gordana Fontana-Giusti, Patrik Schumacher, Annette W
Publisher: Birkh�user Architektur
Keywords: bde, gesamtwerk, das, hadid, zaha
Published: 2004-10
List price: $59.90
ISBN-10: 3764370890
ISBN-13: 9783764370893