Zaha Hadid’s Paintings

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Zaha Hadid’s Paintings
by Desley Luscombe

ISBN: 9781848226845
Hardcover, new
Publication Date: 1/16/2025

Brief Description:
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
C20th 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.