"Utopia: n .an impractical idealistic scheme for social and political reform" - The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition For over twenty years the Iraqi-born, English educated architect Zaha Hadid has symbolized the vanguard of contemporary architecture. She has pushed back the boundaries of built form to forge a highly individualist architectonic language that is at once thrillingly dynamic and intensely thoughtful, and as a result now has an enormous following
In Germany in a small town called Neuenburg am Rhein, my exchange partner Jonas and I were heading to school. Today was his class test for German, 4 hours long he would sit and stare at his old german test wondering if life was worth it, but before and in between they had a twenty minute break to do whatever. Most kids played soccer or ping pong but he sat there with his head down resting. We went home at 12:30 that day to find the temperature around 30 degrees celsius. So instead of studying for
Zaha M. Hadid "Gravity-defying", "fragmentary" and "revolutionary" are a few of the words used to describe Zaha Hadid's architectural designs. The Iraqi-born, London-based architect has stirred up continual controversy with her designs that defy a label in the Modern vs. Post-Modern architectural debate. In the past 15 years, she has gone from unknown student to "architecture's new diva" as the title of the January 1996 Architectural DigestUs profile suggested. Her work has been accepted as a