Quotes and Inspirations:
• "Queen of the curve"
• Leading Lady in architecture
• Leading Lady in architecture
• "Liberated architectural geometry, giving it a whole new expressive identity"
• Made a Dame in 2012.
• First woman to receive Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2004.
• Won the Stirling Prize in 2010 and 2011 - the UK's most prestigious architectural award.
• Influenced by ecosystems and organic forms such as coral, mushrooms, branches; she wanted to implement that 'skin' onto buildings.
• Part of the Parametricism and Destructivism movements in Postmodern architecture rejecting Modernist approaches.
• Hadid was influenced by her early childhood 'on villages and marshes in Southern Iraq. The beauty and landscape where sand, water, buildings and people all somehow flowed together.'
• On her fragmented work she commented, "There are 360 degrees - why stick to one?"
• Hadid will draw anywhere. 'I don't use the computer. I do sketches, very quickly, often more than 100 on the same formal research."
• She listens to classical music - which is something I will be doing as I have just taken up the violin and am in love with the textured compositions. Could this inform my research and development somehow?
• Hadid's dynamic designs increasingly come to resemble the organic forms found in nature. For example, in her design for the Temporary Museum Guggenheim in Tokyo, her treatment of the building is that of an exoskeleton or skin 'unified and animated by snakeskin-like pixelation.'
• She prefers to work with natural, rather than Platonic, geometry as seen in dune-like design concepts for 'One North Masterplan', waves (London Aquatic Centre), shells and glacial formations (Nordpark Cable Railway), coral (Nuragic and Contemporary Art Museum), sand dunes (Dubai Opera House) and starfish (Riverside Museum).
• Her designs incorporate tree-like branches and formations mimicking the human circulatory or nervous systems.
• Zaha Hadid's degree in mathematics is evident in her applied maths in her architecture. Reminiscent of sacred geometry. She throws in elements of randomness that borders on chaos - but her spaces are still spiritual.
• On her fragmented work she commented, "There are 360 degrees - why stick to one?"
• Hadid will draw anywhere. 'I don't use the computer. I do sketches, very quickly, often more than 100 on the same formal research."
• She listens to classical music - which is something I will be doing as I have just taken up the violin and am in love with the textured compositions. Could this inform my research and development somehow?
• Hadid's dynamic designs increasingly come to resemble the organic forms found in nature. For example, in her design for the Temporary Museum Guggenheim in Tokyo, her treatment of the building is that of an exoskeleton or skin 'unified and animated by snakeskin-like pixelation.'
• She prefers to work with natural, rather than Platonic, geometry as seen in dune-like design concepts for 'One North Masterplan', waves (London Aquatic Centre), shells and glacial formations (Nordpark Cable Railway), coral (Nuragic and Contemporary Art Museum), sand dunes (Dubai Opera House) and starfish (Riverside Museum).
• Her designs incorporate tree-like branches and formations mimicking the human circulatory or nervous systems.
• Zaha Hadid's degree in mathematics is evident in her applied maths in her architecture. Reminiscent of sacred geometry. She throws in elements of randomness that borders on chaos - but her spaces are still spiritual.
Notable Works:
• MAXXI
• Heydar Aliyev Center
• London Aquatics Centre
• Bridge Pavillion
• Contemporary Arts Centre
• One North
• Riverside Museum
• Wangjing SOHO
Reflection
I don't want to get too bogged down with too much research for this brief... I want the imagery to be able to inform my responses rather than too many interviews or books. What is my intent here? Why did I switch to Zaha Hadid over Jim Henson? I am primarily interested in her use of shape and form, but from researching these images I am also interested in further understanding how light and shadow play off these forms. How can I convey simplified, angular and curvaceous forms in my work? What tools will help me achieve this? How will her viewpoint, her opinions and influences alter my own practice over the coming weeks? I will move away from Google and Wikipedia, as well as the interviews I compiled this information from, and get some books out of the library. I will need to look at coral, organic forms, sacred geometry to get a better understanding of what Zaha Hadid wanted to achieve in her work.
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