"Zaha Hadid" book- Taschen

Zaha Hadid was a revolutionary architect who, despite critical success, could build almost nothing for years. Some even claimed that her daring and futuristic projects were unattainable.

In the last years of her life, however, Hadid's bold visions became reality, marking cities and diverse structures with a unique and innovative architectural language, as evidenced by the Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art in Cincinnati, hailed by the New York Times as "America's most important new building since the Cold War, " the MAXXI Museum of Contemporary Art in Rome, the Guangzhou Opera House in China, and the London Aquatic Center for the 2012 Olympic Games.

Before her sudden death in 2016, Hadid belonged to the elite of world architecture. She was recognised as the first woman to be awarded both the Pritzker Prize for Architecture and the Gold Medal of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), but above all she was hailed as a creator of new forms and the first great architect of the 2000s.

From her first constructions with right-angled corners to her later creations with more fluid lines, where floors, ceilings, walls and furniture all contribute to the overall form, this reference introduction presents the main examples of Hadid's pioneering method. As much an artist as an architect, she was as concerned with fighting against outdated uses as she was with creating her own universe for the 21st century.