Zaha Hadid's Journey from Painting to Architecture Explored in Artribune Profile

Manuel Orazi profiles Zaha Hadid in Artribune, tracing her trajectory from painting to architecture and decorative arts. The piece highlights the gallery at Zaha Hadid Architects in London, displaying models of sandals, books, speedboats, bags, jewelry, chairs, bookshelves, tables, plates, lamps, vases, and skyscraper maquettes. Orazi notes Hadid's early influence from Russian avant-garde, particularly Malevich, and her studies at the Architectural Association (AA) in London starting in 1972. He mentions her encounter with Anatole Kopp's book "Town and Revolution" and the impact of Golosov's ideas on dynamic deformation. The article references Hadid's Iraqi heritage and her education in mathematics and geometry at the American University of Beirut before the Lebanese Civil War. It notes her building of the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs at the same university between 2006 and 2014. Orazi discusses Hadid's shift from fragmented forms to sinuous curves in her later work, enabled by software like Autocad and Rhino. He also mentions a rare 1984 photograph of Hadid showing a model to Margaret Thatcher. The profile includes references to Patrik Schumacher, Rem Koolhaas, Elia Zenghelis, and the poet Badr Shākir al-Sayyāb. Orazi teaches at the University of Ferrara's Department of Architecture and works for Quodlibet publishing.