Zaha Hadid passed away in 2016 at the age of 65. She certainly wasn’t old. But she is an architect, and by the age of 65 most architects are still very many in their prime. take RemcoolhaasToday, he was the leader of the Metropolitan Architecture office in the 80s and, back in the 70s, was one of Hadid’s teachers at the Architectural Institute of London. Coolhaas gave his promising and unconventional students that he assigned based on the art of projects. Kazimir Malevich.
Specifically, architect Michael Weitzner explains new Architectural Digest The above videoHadid had to adapt one of Malevich’s “arkhitektons.” This was an “object that incorporated ideas of the shapes he used in his paintings.” Black SquareSince 1915, it has previously been featured in open culture. “And then we turned them into 3D pieces.”
To understand the formation of Hadid, we must return to early 20th century Russia, when Malevich was an avant-garde artist. SupremeThe name reflects the idea that his art was related to pure emotional hegemony, in contrast to the representation of the real world.
As a pioneer of “non-objective” art, Malevich played his role in inspiring Hadid on her path to designing buildings as close to abstraction as technically possible. In fact, in the early stages of Hadid’s career, what we consider her signature curve-intensive architectural style – London Aquatics Centre and Dongdaemun Design Plaza Technically it was impossible in Seoul. Examining her early paintings One of the Arkhitekton-based bridge hotels she turned back to Koolhaasor like her first building project Vitra Fire Station Weil Am Rhein shows how her ideas were evolving in direction. Zaha Hadid is now nearly a decade, but her field is still catching up to her in many ways.
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