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Michael Kimmelman: ’’She was not just a rock star and a designer of spectacles’’
United Kingdom Architecture News - Apr 01, 2016 - 13:41 7198 views
Baghdad born architect Zaha Hadid in her apartment in Clerkenwell, Central London.
She was not just a rock star and a designer of spectacles. She also liberated architectural geometry, giving it a whole new expressive identity. Geometry became, in her hands, a vehicle for unprecedented and eye-popping new spaces but also for emotional ambiguity. Her buildings elevated uncertainty to an art, conveyed in the odd ways one entered and moved through those buildings and in the questions her structures raised about how they were supported......Continue Reading
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