How long does it take to read Zaha Hadid?
Zaha Hadid, Joseph Giovannini, Charles Desmarais, Detlef Mertins, Patrik Schumacher, Gordana Fontana Giusti, Patrick Schumacher
Zaha Hadid by Zaha Hadid, Joseph Giovannini, Charles Desmarais, Detlef Mertins, Patrik Schumacher, Gordana Fontana Giusti, Patrick Schumacher takes about 2 hours 56 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 56 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1989. 160 pages, about 44,000 words.
6 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 4 hours 53 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 56 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 50 minutes |
The page count is the median across 26 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"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.
Subjects: Buildings, structures, Deconstructivism (Architecture), Architecture, Modern, Industrial Architecture, Museum architecture, Exhibitions
