Architect Zaha Hadid was a great cinematographer of space. She saw like a camera. She perceived the city in slow motion, in pans, swoops and close-ups, in jump-cuts and narrative rhythms. 

Her early works took many shapes, from paintings and drawings inspired by Suprematism and Constructivism to bold collaborations with artists across disciplines. These included stage design for a contemporary opera show performance and an ice and snow show with Cai Guo-Qiang. 

Alongside her later works in architecture, furniture, interior, and product design, this book offers rare insight into the breadth and diversity of her early career. 

This expanded and updated edition is the complete collection of Zaha Hadid’s works up to 2017. Featuring 680 illustrations — including photographs, descriptions, conceptual studies, technical drawings, and her own drawings — this book presents a visual and textual archive of her architectural thinking. 

Aaron Betsky is Dean of the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture, Taliesin West, in Scottsdale, Arizona, and Taliesin, in Spring Green, Wisconsin. He has been deeply engaged with the world of architecture for almost fifty years and has written numerous monographs on the work of late 20th-century architects.

PLC (no jacket), 24.0 x 21.6 cm, 320 pages
ISBN-10 500343357
ISBN-13 978-0-5003-4335-7