The Zaha Hadid Interviews brings together 12 conversations between Zaha Hadid and curator Hans Ulrich Obrist, recorded between 2001 and 2013.
About This Book
Over more than a decade, Obrist returned again and again to Hadid's thinking—catching her in conversation as her practice moved from speculative drawings and paintings to major museums and civic buildings across Europe, Asia and the United States. The interviews treat architecture as continuous experiment: through drawing and exhibition-making, through urbanism and new technologies, and through the difficult work of turning radical ideas into built form. Hadid speaks about interior complexity, movement and perception, collaboration and authorship, and the ties between architecture, art and performance. The conversations are illustrated with her drawings and paintings, some published here for the first time, alongside models and documentary and archival photographs.
Key Features
- 12 conversations recorded between 2001 and 2013
- 96 illustrations, including drawings and paintings published for the first time
- Models, documentary and archival photographs
- Part of HENI's interview series with Hans Ulrich Obrist, alongside Peter Cook: Art of Architecture
What You'll Discover
- How Hadid used drawing and painting as tools of architectural invention
- Her thinking on movement, perception and complex interior space
- The role of exhibitions and installations in testing ideas before building
- How a radical, speculative practice found its way into major built work
About the Author
Hans Ulrich Obrist is artistic director of the Serpentine Galleries in London and one of the world's most prolific interviewers of artists and architects. Zaha Hadid (1950–2016) founded Zaha Hadid Architects in London and in 2004 became the first woman to receive the Pritzker Architecture Prize.
Specifications
- Format: Hardcover
- Dimensions: 180 × 237 mm
- Pages: 204
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9781911736295
- Publisher: HENI Publishing
Perfect For: Architects, students and admirers of Zaha Hadid, and readers of Obrist's interview series.