TY  - BOOK
AU  - Schumacher,Patrik
TI  - Digital Hadid: landscapes in motion
T2  - The IT revolution in architecture
SN  - 3764301724
AV  - NA1469.H33 S38 2004
U1  - 720/.92 22
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Switzerland
PB  - Birkhauser
KW  - Hadid, Zaha
KW  - Architectural design
KW  - Data processing
KW  - Local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [89]); I. The prehistory of the new digitally based architecture : The quest of new design media ; Zaha Hadid in her own words ; Graphic space ; Post-modernism, deconstructivism, folding ; Mechanisms of invention --
II Current work: Towards a new digitally based architectural language : Organic interarticulation ; Center for Contemporary Arts, Rome ; Art Center, Graz ; Quebec National Library, Montreal ; One North masterplan, Singapore ; BMW plant: central building, Leipzig ; Ice-storm, Lounging environment ; Z-scape, Longing furniture ; BBC music centre and office, London ; Fine Arts Center, University of Connecticut ; Fast train station, Florence ; Fast train station, Naples ; The Temporary Guggenheim, Tokyo ; Guggenheim, Taichung
N2  - A "The book describes the transition from drawing to computing in the work of Zaha Hadid. The hallmark of Zaha Hadid's early work was the innovation and expansion of graphic media to be utilised as new design techniques. On this basis a new architectural language and conception of space was developed. The analog techniques employed - like interpenetraion, isometric and perspectival distortion, dynamic bending and warping - anticipate the possibilities currently offered by advanced animation software. Intermediate techniques like distortion and "smearing" using the xerox machine established a fertile ground for the quick assimilation of the new digital tools in the process of form finding. The book elaborates a series of recent projects where various digital techniques have become an essential ingredient of the project development."--Jacket
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