Zaha Hadid's Paintings, Imagining Architecture (original) (raw)

Pleased to announce the release of my new book published by Lund Humphries, to be launched in London at the Zaha Hadid Foundation 3rd October 2024. For pre-order information please see https://www.lundhumphries.com/collections/coming-soon/products/zaha-hadids-paintings?mc\_cid=55c3b1174c&mc\_eid=f309ec8184 Within this book, each chapter focuses on individual paintings from Hadid’s repertoire, revealing their visual logic and questioning the complexity of their architectural propositions. Analysis raises questions of the purpose of painting in architectural representation. The paintings are well known through numerous exhibitions and publications and have been seen many times – yet not really ‘seen’ as the subject for a broad-based critical analysis. Readers of this book may have understood them as a form of branding, but perhaps will have rarely questioned the context or the complex layering of their visual imagery – and how they illustrate theoretical concerns within the architectural debates of the period. This book aims to slow down and look more closely at the selected images. It directs readers to see elements within each composition as connected, unifying the visually complex spatial logic of a radical architecture. Uniquely it is the techniques of painting’s pictorial space that have underpinned Hadid’s exploration of the potentials of architecture’s space, form and time relationships.