[Introspective] Zaha Hadid

[AHWeaver at aol.com]

This may be of some interest to those who remember that Zaha Hadid designed 
the sets for the "Nightlife" tour. Yet another very high-profile artist with 
whom the Boys have collaborated! (I'm only posting the beginning of the article)

Architecture's top honor goes to London-based Zaha Hadid, known for her 
imaginative range.
By Nicolai Ouroussoff
Los Angeles Times

March 22 2004

Zaha Hadid, whose dynamic designs often seem to defy laws of gravity, has won 
the Pritzker Prize, architecture's highest honor. It is the first time the 
prize has been given to a woman in the award's 25-year history.

Based in London, [the Iraqi-born] Hadid has long been considered one of 
architecture's most precocious talents. Her exquisite architectural renderings — 
many created while she was in her 30s — made her an international cult figure 
before she had completed a single building. Taut with energy, their delirious 
arrangements of color recalled the works of Futurist painters such as Umberto 
Boccioni, and they suggested a new kind of urban landscape, one set in a 
perpetual state of motion.

But it is only in recent years that Hadid has landed the kind of high-profile 
international commissions that could legitimize her place among 
architecture's elite. Among the most striking is the recently completed Rosenthal Center 
for Contemporary Art in Cincinnati, Hadid's first built project in the United 
States. The structure's chiseled concrete exterior evokes a collection of urban 
fragments that has somehow broken free of the surrounding cityscape.

Other recent built works include a tram station and parking lot in 
Strasbourg, France, and a soaring ski jump in Innsbruck, Austria. She is completing a 
science center in Wolfsburg, Germany, a Center for Contemporary Art in Rome and 
an arts center in Bartlesville, Okla.

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Andrew H. Weaver, Ph.D.
Visiting Assistant Professor of Musicology
University of Notre Dame
Crowley Hall, Room 211
Phone: (574) 631-6674
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