Title & Author:

To a New Modernism / [presented by] Zaha Hadid (Zaha Hadid Architects).

Publication:

London, England : Pidgeon Digital, 1988.

Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (27 minutes)) : sound, color

Notes:
Zaha Hadid -- Malevich Tectonic Designed As Hotel On Hungerford Bridge, London. 4th Year Student Project -- Museum Of The Nineteenth Century, London. 5th Year Student Thesis -- Project For Dutch Parliament Extension, The Hague -- House For The Irish Prime Minister, Dublin. Competition Entry -- House In Eton Place, London. Project. Composite Plan & Aerial View -- Competition Entry For Parc De La Villette, Paris. Isometric Of The Park -- Competition Entry For Parc De La Villette, Paris. Site Plan & Moving Elements -- Competition Entry For Parc De La Villette, Paris. The Scheme -- The Peak, Hong Kong. Winning Entry To Competition. View Of Whole Vertical Area -- The Peak, Hong Kong. Winning Entry To Competition. Exploded Isometric -- The Peak, Hong Kong. Winning Entry To Competition. Decks In The Air -- The Peak, Hong Kong. Winning Entry To Competition. A New Way Of Drawing -- The Peak, Hong Kong. Winning Entry To Competition. The Way The Structure Operates -- Grand Buildings, Trafalgar Square, London. Competition Entry. View From The Square With Movement Diagrams -- Grand Buildings, Trafalgar Square, London. Competition Entry. Night & Day Paintings -- Fluid Space Within A Domestic Landscape -- Housing For Internationale Bauausstellung (IBA), Berlin. Schematic Drawing -- Housing For Internationale Bauausstellung (IBA), Berlin. Tower & Beams -- Offices For Kurfürstendamm, Berlin. The Site -- Offices For Kurfürstendamm, Berlin. Series Of Studies -- Offices For Kurfürstendamm, Berlin. Elevational Painting.

Summary:

Iraqi-born Zaha Hadid took a degree in mathematics at the American University in Beirut, before coming to the Architectural Association School in London where she qualified in 1977. She studied under Rem Koolhaas and Elia Zenghelis at Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), and subsequently partnered them for a year. She has also taught at the AA and Harvard and Columbia Universities, and has been published and exhibited all over the world, becoming enormously influential. In her talk she discusses a number of her designs, including The Peak, after explaining how her approach to architecture came about. ""The work was layered in terms of ideas"" she says ""in the same way that culture is layered"". Whatever she was designing, whether on a large or small scale, buildings or furniture, she saw it as part of a whole language: the notion of fluid spaces within landscapes. She was of the opinion that architectural representation in general is too confining to the design process, and thus invented a new and very striking way of depicting her ideas.

Subject:

Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Architectural design.
Architecture 20e siècle.
Design architectural.
Architecture, Modern.

Added entries:

Hadid, Zaha, narrator.