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Zaha Hadid was a revolutionary architect, who for many years built almost nothing, despite winning critical acclaim. Some even said her audacious, futuristic designs were unbuildable. During the latter years of her life, Hadid’s daring visions became a reality, bringing a unique new architectural language to cities and structures as varied as the Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art in Cincinnati, hailed by The New York Times as “the most important new building in America since the Cold War”; the MAXXI Museum in Rome; the Guangzhou Opera House in China; and the London 2012 Olympics Aquatics Centre. At the time of her unexpected death in 2016, Hadid was firmly established among the elite of world architecture, recognized as the first woman to win both the Pritzker Prize for architecture and the RIBA Royal Gold Medal, but above all as a giver of new forms, the first great architect of the noughties. From her early sharply angled buildings to later more fluid architecture that made floors, ceilings, walls, and furniture part of an overall design, this essential introduction presents key examples of Hadid’s pioneering practice. She was an artist, as much as an architect, who fought to break the old rules and crafted her own 21st-century universe.

Los resultados del programa redefinieron el concepto de vivienda moderna, y su influencia no solo se expandió por Estados Unidos sino también por todo el mundo. Esta guía compacta de TASCHEN incluye todos los proyectos del Case Study House, ilustrado con más de 150 fotografías y planos, además de un mapa con su ubicación, incluso de aquellos ya desaparecidos.

¿Cuándo un edificio es solo una construcción y cuándo es arte? ¿Qué hace que nos emocionemos con la magnificencia del Taj Mahal, las pirámides de Giza o un rascacielos de Nueva York? ¿Qué secretos ocultan la cuidada sobriedad de Le Corbusier, la trascendencia espiritual de Miguel Ángel o la racionalidad clásica de Calícrates? Con un lenguaje alejado de tecnicismos, en esta guía encontrarás lo esencial de la arquitectura de todo el mundo para que puedas disfrutar todavía más esa apasionante faceta de la actividad humana.