Zaha Hadid - Contemporary architecture's forms

Extraordinary architect among the most famous. An innovative, extraordinary, eclectic, authoritarian, uncompromising woman who has revolutionized the world of architecture with over 150 projects on all continents. A tribute and a celebration to the one who made digital possibilities real, who created web 2.0 architecture.

Zaha Hadid - Contemporary architecture's forms

British architect of Iraqi origins, with a hardly definable style that fits between technology and a futuristic vision of architecture. Buildings with complex geometry that defy the force of gravity and within which they cause a sense of dizziness and bewilderment. Zaha Hadid gives life to magical curves, to a fluid architecture that is almost liquid, but at the same time elegant and plastic, so as to reach the top of the world of architecture and design.

Zaha Hadid was born in Baghdad in 1950 and at the age of 11 she had already decided to become an architect, she had never wanted to do anything else in her life and her tenacity, in a rather difficult world for a woman, she was rewarded, so much so that she became the first woman to be awarded the Pritzer Prize in 2004. Honor reconfirmed by the retrospective dedicated to her at the Guggenheim in New York in 2006 and by the double victory of the Stirling Prize in 2010 and 2011.

Her innovation, in addition to the technological one, is the architectural process she creates with her projects, passing through painting, it becomes the search for something else, to imagine new things. Precisely this insight of her will make it difficult for her to receive assignments for at least 10 years from the beginning of her career.

The documentary presents a behind-the-scenes look at his London studio, where his partner Patrik Schumacher himself takes us on a walk through the architect's 3d and three-dimensional models and tells us the background of Zaha Hadid's futuristic vision, who has made this studio a veritable empire of world architecture.

A cross-section of some of his most extraordinary projects follows the background of the English studio. The Heydar Aliyev Cultural Center in Baku, a concrete, polyester and fiberglass envelope that integrates perfectly with the context; the Sheikh Zayed bridge in Abu Dhabi that silhouetted its steel arches at full speed offering something unexpected that doesn't happen very often when it comes to bridges. And again the Mobile Art Museum, a real goldsmith's work that recalls the iconic Coco bag, created for Karl Lagerfeld and which reached its peak in front of the facade of the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris; the protruding and inimitable MAXXI of Rome in which each line of the building is aligned with a directrix of the urban context so that when you drive in the neighborhood the museum is always visible, but the original purpose was the exact opposite, from the building you had to see all around.

Zaha Hadid herself states that "the most interesting thing in seeing these finished projects is that there is always something you don't expect".

A compelling and nostalgic documentary for Zaha Hadid followers and fans. It is fascinating to hear the direct testimonies of the architect himself 6 years after his death, together with the words of his collaborators. A tribute to a great architect who unfortunately passed away too soon and who surely still had so much to say or rather to show.

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