The Peak Leisure Club Hong Kong.  1982-1983 Architects: Zaha Hadid

ZAHA HADID, The Haydar Aliyev Center, Baku Azerbaijan 2007-2012. Photography by Helene Binet, Zaha Hadid Architects. / Wired

Library and Learning Centre University of Economics Vienna by Zaha Hadid Architects

Hadid's Approach to Architecture

As quoted from an interview between Zaha Hadid herself and Ossian Ward, Hadid speaks about her work and how herself and her team go about completing an assignment. It is quite impressive to see how her work begins as paintings before it transforms into architecture. Read her account of her design process below:

Derogatory tags such as ‘fantasist’ and ‘paper architect’ were often applied to Hadid in the early days due to her conspicuous lack of built work, but ironically they might be appropriate terms for an architect who paints, scribbles or draws her ideas before they are rendered by computer. ‘The paintings were always part of the building,’ she says of some of the works to be included in her Design Museum exhibition.  ‘They were never done as pure art.’ Hadid differs in this hands-on approach from many of the current crop of techno-architects who are only a few steps away from relinquishing all human control and ushering in an age of computer-generated architecture. But stories about her passing images across a photocopier to come up with her extraordinary sweeping, stretching designs are false; it is technology that has had to catch up with Hadid and not the other way round.  The sinuous lines and layers may look spectacular but her architecture is always built with its end users – us – in mind. ‘We learn from our own repertoire, but every site brings something unique to the project. Our approach is to invest in making a space, and research how, for example, to integrate civic space within the domain of office space.’

To read the entire interview visit: http://www.timeout.com/london/art/zaha-hadid-interview

Concept work done for Syn Studios’ Gathering of the Masters ‘18  ‘Tron in the Daylight’ workshop.  Had fun returning to my comfort zone! Started out as a building that became a ‘Yacht’ of some variety … super fun. 

Ang Mo Kio Residence, Singapore by Atelier Hier Architects | 📷 Daniel Swee

Polaris

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lizzingtonweek | day two. fave quote (either said by them, said about them, or a quote you think fits them)

that’s polaris. the north star. that’s how sailors used to find their way home. when i look at you, that’s what i see. i see my way home.

this is the quote that killed me. said so softly and easily. when just seconds before he hadn’t been able to come up with the words. red’s salvation, red’s redemption, has always been through lizzy. and it’s these short sentences that show just how hard he’s trying to get there.  and the quick way she turns to look at him. how she just stares and learns so much about him from his confession.  this entire scene is the epitome of lizzington to me and short of a love confession, nothing will be better than this.

ZAHA HADID, WU Campus, Library and Learning Center, Vienna Austria, 2013