RIP Zaha Hadid
RIP Zaha Hadid
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- Miesfan0
I do not want to sound like a real asshole. But when you draw graceful dolphins leaping out of the water and get a beached whale as a building / bridge something is not right. Like Calatrava, btw.
Where are now Erich Mendelsohn, Bruno Taut, Hans Polzeig, Fritz Höger, or even Hans Scharoun. When I studied architecture the great popes were Mario Bota, Aldo Rossi, and all that shit called transvanguardia, and we were discovering Louis Khan.
Then we learned that Herzog & Meuron studied / worked with Rossi, and I think in a single Charlotte Pierrand's nail, Lilly Reich, or Eileen Gray are more architecture than in all the work of ZH.RIP Zaha.
- though Calatrava went to study Engineering after Architecture, so he could build his designs. Maybe the architecture is not great, but the architect is.uan
- ...NO. Calatrava te la clava. Calatrava stabs you, an untranslatable rhyme. Take a look.http://www.cala...Miesfan
- http://www.calatrava…Miesfan
- I feel the same about Calatrava as I do about Zaha Hadid.utopian
- ok, I'm convinced. looks like he tends to focus to much on his 'artistic' signature and not so much on the realization of his projects. sad story.uan
- I had the impression his first buildings were better constructed. at least the stuff he built here in switzerland doesn't get that level of critique.uan
- aka the Rechtswissenschaftli... Bibliothek in Zürich and railway station Stadelhofen Zürich.uan
- I think in the rechts wissenschaftliche bibliothek he did a great job, the space he created is great. but I agree that lots of things he does are more 'style'uan
- than great architecture.uan