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Title: Zaha Hadid: Space for Art--Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati by Zaha Hadid, Paul Warchol, Helene Binet ISBN: 3-03778-005-3 Publisher: Lars Muller Publishers Pub. Date: 01 March, 2004 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 1 (2 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Urban Terrorism
Comment: It is hard to imagine a building less humanising, graceful or visually satisfying thad Hadid's Arts Center in Cinicinatti. Pumped up as it is on sculptural pretense and imbecilic notions about space and form, all that has been achieved is a form of monumental arrogance that promotes the cult of Zaha, even as she thumbs her nose at downtown Cincinatti. For Hadid, architecture is not about people, cities or urbanism, but rather about converting superficial diagrams into built form. It is no surprise then that Hadid, (who is known for her rudeness to staff, students and clients alike), could give a proverbial s**t about Cincinatti where she neither lives nor works. This is a monstrous building passing itself off as avante-garde design. It's about time someone called it as it is.
Rating: 1
Summary: Disappointing Building and Book
Comment: Hadid made her name with slick drawings. As images they can be seductive, but it must be admitted that they have nothing to do with architecture. Hadid's buildings prove the point that her work is not really about architecture or space much as she professes otherwise. Remove her computer graphic program and the you get the crude interpretaion of ideas not fully worked out, passing themselves off as a building. The CAC was designed on screen without any reference to site or context, and it shows. There is no attempt to adress scale (human or urban), and the massing is loud and arrogant. ("Look at Me" - it screams.) Sadly for Cincinatti, they are stuck with this amatuerish and crude building. As for the book, it is predicatable in its praise and cliched in its language. The photos are irritating insofar as they make difficult views more unreadable than they need be. I can't help wondering if this is just a trick that weas deployed because there are no satisfying compositional views within this building that could be taken. Hadid should stick to drawings where she cannot do so much damage to our urban centers.
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Title: Zaha Hadid: Works by Not Available, Tim Sakamoto ISBN: 1893801187 Publisher: In-D Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.99 |
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Title: Zaha Hadid: The Complete Buildings and Projects by Zaha Hadid, Aaron Betsky ISBN: 0847821331 Publisher: Rizzoli Pub. Date: 01 October, 1998 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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Title: Morphosis by Thom Mayne ISBN: 071484070X Publisher: Phaidon Press Pub. Date: December, 2002 List Price(USD): $75.00 |
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Title: Architecture of Zaha Hadid in Photographs by Helene Binet by Helene Binet, Lars Muller ISBN: 3907078128 Publisher: Lars Muller Publishers Pub. Date: 2001 List Price(USD): $65.00 |
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Title: Phylogenesis foa's ark: foreign office architects by Sanford Kwinter, Mark Wigley, Detlef Mertins, Jeffrey Kipnis ISBN: 8495951479 Publisher: Actar Pub. Date: 01 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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