While I am in fact addicted to and in love with books, surprisingly I did not choose a career in the book industry. I am not a writer, unless you count several half finished stories from when I was a kid (which I honestly do not, they were often similar to a book I’d recently read or absolute crap). But yes I do lay there at night sometimes and wonder how I ended up in the field I did, when I’m sure someone would have pegged my bookish nerdiness to a future book editor, writer or bookshop owner (if I’m being ambitious, if not then I would be the cashier in a bookshop).
No I found a second love. Shhhhh don’t tell my books...just kidding they already know, and since I can read books that have elements of my career in them the books leave me alone about it. I fell in love with architecture and design. The way a building comes about, the care of a good landscape plan. To me it is a form of art. I borrowed a book from my boss’s generous office collection and was swept up in inspiration and love for my chosen career path.
Zaha Hadid had an incredible mind. The way she viewed the world, as an artist is amazing. The way she interpreted her view of the world into these incredibly unique, artistic buildings. I’m actually incredibly surprised and a little offended that we didn’t study her when I was in college. I guess to be fair, colleges typically focus on the legends. By legends I’m referring to the great architects that are not of our time, the ones who to be blunt are no longer with us and have been deceased for quite some time. Hadid is too current for us to have studied, which is an entirely different issue in my mind.
I’ve seen Hadid’s buildings (well pictures of her buildings) but I never really read anything in depth about her. While this book was about her work, not a biography on her, it truly captured what an amazing mind she had. I’m still baffled how her staff knew exactly how to interpret the paintings she gave them into precise construction documents.
Her buildings really are works of art. They stem from a painting she makes, not floor plans or precise schematics, an exploded abstracted painting of her vision. Whether you’re an architecture fan or even really an art fan, I highly recommend looking at her paintings, and then looking at the buildings that came from those paintings. It is extremely inspiring.
"Zaha Hadid: The Complete Buildings and Projects" (Disclaimer this is not really a complete buildings and projects as it was published in 1998, Hadid was alive and practicing until 2016 and her studio is still in business)
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1342929.Zaha_Hadid
No I found a second love. Shhhhh don’t tell my books...just kidding they already know, and since I can read books that have elements of my career in them the books leave me alone about it. I fell in love with architecture and design. The way a building comes about, the care of a good landscape plan. To me it is a form of art. I borrowed a book from my boss’s generous office collection and was swept up in inspiration and love for my chosen career path.
Zaha Hadid had an incredible mind. The way she viewed the world, as an artist is amazing. The way she interpreted her view of the world into these incredibly unique, artistic buildings. I’m actually incredibly surprised and a little offended that we didn’t study her when I was in college. I guess to be fair, colleges typically focus on the legends. By legends I’m referring to the great architects that are not of our time, the ones who to be blunt are no longer with us and have been deceased for quite some time. Hadid is too current for us to have studied, which is an entirely different issue in my mind.
I’ve seen Hadid’s buildings (well pictures of her buildings) but I never really read anything in depth about her. While this book was about her work, not a biography on her, it truly captured what an amazing mind she had. I’m still baffled how her staff knew exactly how to interpret the paintings she gave them into precise construction documents.
Her buildings really are works of art. They stem from a painting she makes, not floor plans or precise schematics, an exploded abstracted painting of her vision. Whether you’re an architecture fan or even really an art fan, I highly recommend looking at her paintings, and then looking at the buildings that came from those paintings. It is extremely inspiring.
"Zaha Hadid: The Complete Buildings and Projects" (Disclaimer this is not really a complete buildings and projects as it was published in 1998, Hadid was alive and practicing until 2016 and her studio is still in business)
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1342929.Zaha_Hadid
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