Zaha Hadid's Paintings

Imagining Architecture

Desley Luscombe

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English

Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
16 September 2024

Individual architects & architectural firms; Architectural structure & design; Architecture: professional practice

Zaha Hadid is widely regarded as a visionary and influential architect, who became globally acclaimed by the time of her untimely death in 2016. This book is the first to focus on how painting was fundamental to her practice. During the first 20 years of her career, she earned her reputation through ‘paper architecture’: projects which were widely published in architecture journals and exhibited, but which remained largely unbuilt. Influenced by the Suprematists, she used her paintings as design tools and abstraction as an investigative structure for imagining architecture.

Drawing extensively on interviews with Hadid's contemporaries and her team of assistants and her past presentations and in-depth interviews, this book is the first to focus on the important aspect of Hadid’s work. It examines selected paintings in detail, both critically assessing them in the wider context of 20th-century fine art – in relation to the Suprematists, de Stijl, Cubism and Futurism – and offering insights into how Hadid used the paintings to develop architectural and spatial ideas, which she would later realise in her buildings. The paintings were created at a pivotal time in architecture, just before the move away from hand drawing to computers and many of Hadid’s paintings pre-empt the potential of digital and virtual reality.

By: Desley Luscombe
Imprint: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 280mm, Width: 240mm, Spine: 17mm
ISBN: 9781848226845
ISBN 10: 1848226845
Pages: 176
Publication Date: 16 September 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Desley Luscombe is Emeritus Professor of Architecture at University of Technology Sydney, Australia. While at UTS she held the position of Dean of Faculty of Design Architecture and Building from 2004-2016. From 1977, she was founding partner of Campbell Luscombe Architects (Sydney). While achieving her PhD in Renaissance Studies, Luscombe’s current research focuses on twentieth-century architectural drawings.

Reviews for Zaha Hadid's Paintings: Imagining Architecture

‘With Luscombe’s book Hadid’s paintings finally receive a scientific analysis that convincingly explains their meaning and function within her complex oeuvre. An eye-opening read!’ – Phillip Ost