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...ZAHA HADID, 53, avant-garde architect legendary for designs so extreme they rarely get off the drawing board; the prestigious $100,000 Pritzker Architecture Prize; in West Hollywood, California. Since the opening of the striking, Hadid-designed Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art in Cincinnati, Ohio, last May, the Baghdad-born architect has received a number of commissions around the world. After winning the prize, Hadid remarked: "I suppose some will see [this] as a sign that I have gone from being a difficult person to [being] part of the Establishment...
Right now there is precisely one first-rank woman architect--the estimable Zaha Hadid--who works on her own, not teamed with her husband or some other guy. But hold on, Zaha--reinforcements are coming. Lindy Roy, 40, is already the most famous woman architect who has just one completed project to her name: the new Manhattan showroom of the Swiss furniture company Vitra, which has become a showcase for Roy too. It's a suavely configured space where display platforms ribbon around corners or morph into mahogany staircases that have embedded steel treads...
...California experience, Maltzan seems to have picked up on one of the ubiquitous forms of movement through space: the sinuous ramps of freeway overpasses. Beyond this formal analogue, Maltzan’s geometry of bands and tubes follows after the work of Iraq-born and London-based architect Zaha Hadid. Its tubular forms recall Diller and Scofidio’s proposal for a new Institute for Contemporary Art in Boston...
...People don't want to be in the kind of space that they inhabit every day," says Hadid. She calls the central conceit of the interior an "urban carpet," black diagonal stairways that hang in space like gangways. It will not just circulate crowds but also provide some of the same interior spectacle as Wright's great spiral at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City. Or think of the escalator atrium at any canny shopping mall. To be a museum these days is to compete in the world of theme parks and retail. That is fine with Hadid...
Though the building has its share of perpendicular lines, in total it's the work of a woman who treats right angles as something best left to squares. Dignity and energy aren't always easy to reconcile. Hadid has managed a building that's both pumping and poised, heated but also very cool. You can't help thinking of Le Corbusier, one of the founders of 20th century architecture, who once said even modern architecture is too staid. "Jazz is more advanced," he wrote in 1931. "If architecture were at the point reached by jazz, it would be an incredible...