Zaha Hadid : BMW Central Building, Leipzig, Germany / Todd Gannon, volume editor.

Main entry:

Hadid, Zaha.

Title & Author:

Zaha Hadid : BMW Central Building, Leipzig, Germany / Todd Gannon, volume editor.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

Description:

160 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans (some color) ; 23 cm.

Series:

Source books in architecture ; 7

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Data and Chronology -- Architect's Statement -- Conversations with Zaha Hadid -- Competition : -- Stage 1 -- Stage 2 -- Design Development -- Final Drawings -- Execution -- Completed Construction -- Project Credits -- Bibliography -- Biographies.

Summary:

"Zaha Hadid's highly inventive and seemingly unbuildable designs have always defied conventional ideas of architectural space and construction. The BMW Central Building in Leipzig, Germany, a recent addition to her visionary, gravity-defying, fearlessly bold, and rapidly increasing body of built work, succeeds in creating space through lines of motion. The heart of the BMW factory complex, the Central Building is the dynamic focal point of the entire plant that visually, physically, and experientially sustains a sense of animation. With the constant movement supplied by employees, visitors, and automobiles and its audacious, abstracted geometry of forms and lines, the structure challenges the notion of building as a static art." "Zaha Hadid, the 2004 Pritzker Prize Laureate and the first woman to receive the honor, is celebrated for her unbuilt works as well as her built works, including the Phaeno Science Center (Wolfsburg, Germany), Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art (Cincinnati, Ohio), Bergisel Ski Jump (Innsbruck, Austria), and Vitra Fire Station (Weil am Rhein, Germany)."--Jacket.

Resources:
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Table of contents
Table of contents

ISBN:

1568985363 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9781568985367

Subject:

Hadid, Zaha.
Bayerische Motoren Werke.
Architecture, Industrial Germany Leipzig.
Architecture industrielle Allemagne Leipzig.
Architecture, Industrial
Buildings
Leipzig (Germany) Buildings, structures, etc.
Germany Leipzig

Added entries:

Gannon, Todd.
Source books in architecture ; 7.

BMW Central Building, Leipzig, Germany

Holdings:

Location: Library main 249905
Call No.: BIB 179441
Status: Available

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