Main entry:

Luscombe, Desley, author.

Title & Author:

Zaha Hadid's paintings : imagining architecture / Desley Luscombe.

Publication:

London : Lund Humphries, 2024.
©2024.

Description:

158 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. From lines to the tactile surface: Malevich's Tektonik to 59 Eaton Place -- 2. Pictorial space and the transformation of architecture: the Peak -- 3. Politicising the urban character of London: grand buildings -- 4. Body, sensation and the immaterial in architecture: office building on Kurfürstendamm 70, Berlin -- 5. Spatial force--architecture as urban impact: Vitra Fire Station -- 6. From the networked object to the fluidity of histories: MAXXI, Rome -- Conclusion: Of painting and architecture.

Summary:

'Zaha Hadid is widely regarded as a visionary and influential architect, who became globally acclaimed by the time of her untimely death in 2016. This book is the first to focus on how painting was fundamental to her practice. During the first 20 years of her career, she earned her reputation through ‘paper architecture’: projects which were widely published in architecture journals and exhibited, but which remained largely unbuilt. Influenced by the Suprematists, she used her paintings as design tools and abstraction as an investigative structure for imagining architecture. Drawing extensively on interviews with Hadid's contemporaries and her team of assistants and her past presentations and in-depth interviews, this book is the first to focus on the important aspect of Hadid’s work. It examines selected paintings in detail, both critically assessing them in the wider context of 20th-century fine art – in relation to the Suprematists, de Stijl, Cubism and Futurism – and offering insights into how Hadid used the paintings to develop architectural and spatial ideas, which she would later realise in her buildings. The paintings were created at a pivotal time in architecture, just before the move away from hand drawing to computers and many of Hadid’s paintings pre-empt the potential of digital and virtual reality." -Back cover

ISBN:

1848226845 hardcover
9781848226845 hardcover

Subject:

Hadid, Zaha Criticism and interpretation.
Architecture in art.
Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Architecture dans l'art.
Architecture 20e siècle.

Added entries:

Lund Humphries, publisher.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 320466
Call No.: 320466
Copy: 1
Status: Available