{"id":6044,"date":"2017-09-08T10:00:59","date_gmt":"2017-09-08T01:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.samsungcnt.com\/en\/?p=6044"},"modified":"2023-02-27T18:58:33","modified_gmt":"2023-02-27T09:58:33","slug":"queen-of-the-curve-zaha-hadids-legacy-of-fluidity-lives-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.samsungcnt.com\/en\/features\/engineering-construction\/2017-09-queen-of-the-curve-zaha-hadids-legacy-of-fluidity-lives-on\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Queen of the Curve\u2019 Zaha Hadid\u2019s Legacy of Fluidity Lives on"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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An outpour of tributes followed Zaha Hadid\u2019s sudden passing last year, attempting to fill the void that the 65-year-old architect had left in the field. Many dubbed her fearless, visionary, iconic, larger than life, groundbreaking, and highly experimental. To others she was a diva, a caffeine-loving, chain-smoking \u2018Queen of the Curve;\u2019 a rock star; designer of spectacles; individual of great courage, conviction, and tenacity; the greatest female architect of her time with a disregard for dull functionality and penchant for experimentation, who built the unbuildable. Her mentor Rem Koolhaas once called her \u201ca planet in her own inimitable orbit.\u201d<\/p>

Needless to say, Hadid left an imprint of her style and flair on the architecture industry not to mention urban landscapes around the world.<\/p>

Some of her most iconic buildings include\u00a0Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP)<\/a>\u00a0in Seoul, the London Aquatics Center built for the 2012 Summer Olympics, Galaxy Soho in Beijing, the Jockey Club Innovation Tower in Hong Kong, and one of her first pieces that put her on the map, the Vitra Fire Station in Germany.<\/p>

She has been celebrated as the first woman to win the Pritzker Prize \u2013 the Nobel Prize equivalent in architecture \u2013 a recipient of the UK\u2019s most prestigious architecture award, the RIBA Stirling Prize, and the first woman to be awarded RIBA\u2019s royal gold medal in her own right.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Celebrating Hadid\u2019s Spirit of Innovation<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Discussing her legacy just a year and a half after her death may be considered premature by some. Many of her projects are in fact still under construction. But, no one is as uniquely qualified to do so as Patrik Schumacher, the principal at Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA), who played an instrumental role as Hadid\u2019s collaborative partner for 28 years.<\/p>

On September 4 in Seoul, Schumacher delivered a keynote speech at the triennial UIA world congress, looking back at Hadid\u2019s legacy and what lies ahead for the architecture and design firm she left behind.<\/p>

Hadid\u2019s works are often described as undulating, swooping, curved, futuristic, and having formal fluidity, which liberated architectural geometry.<\/p>

The origins of this, Schumacher said, can be traced all the way back to Russian painter Kazimir Malevich, who was considered a leading figure in geometric abstract art. Hadid was inspired by his work but also sought to build on it by layering more complexity in a bid to complete \u201cunfinished modernity,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Pillars of Inspiration<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Schumacher\u2019s lecture was peppered with what might at first appear to be oxymorons. He often described their approach to design with words like \u201cscripted differentiation,\u201d \u201cprincipled variation,\u201d and \u201ccomplex variegated order.\u201d<\/p>

He labeled Hadid\u2019s core pillars of inspiration \u201cZaha\u2019s Radical Formal Innovations,\u201d centering on four themes of explosion, calligraphy, distortion, and landscape analogy. Hadid\u2019s chain of thought running through these concepts reflects her personal journey of challenging the existing order, while attempting to build a new one.<\/p>

Her process of evolution begins with the notion of explosion, which looks to break up existing elements to open up a space for new interactions. She saw structures not as giant blocks that can only be placed in one mold or another, but as organisms with multiple parts that communicate with each other. The concept of calligraphy and doodles is what adds coherence to these elements. What to anyone else may look like a random tangle of lines on paper, provided Hadid with a way to visualize continuity in a structure and discover new spaces.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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