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“Ogni distorsione, frammentazione o rivoluzione è una traccia,
che inspessisce progetti in apparenza più formali che sostanziali”

A TRIBUTE TO ZAHA HADID a track, which thickens projects apparently more formal than substantial,
from the Vitra Fire Station in Weil am Rhein of 1993 to the Maxxi of
Let’s call them “impossible perspectives” what the Iraqi architect natura- Rome. Known in the architecture world as the “Queen of Curves”, for the
lized Briton - the first woman in the history of the Nobel to win the Pri- unmistakable dynamism of the forms applied to her buildings, imposing
tzker Prize in 2004 - used to draw on paper, in the slow and meticulous and light at the same time, Zaha Hadid was born in Baghdad, studied in
process of giving shape to the project. Because whether they are finished, Beirut and then in London, her second home, from where she starts an un-
under construction or never realized, the works of Zaha Hadid are told stoppable career that will take her to sign projects at the four corners of the
through sketches, technical drawings and models, collected by the will of globe. As the recent Port House just opened in Antwerp: a glass structure
the Foundation Berengo in the first major retrospective made to celebrate with a soul of steel, result of the recovery of the old barracks of the Firemen
the thirty-five year career of Lady of architecture, who died on last March. which is sided by a new futuristic building, all designed to accommodate the
At Palazzo Franchetti, suggestive building overlooking the Grand Canal, are employees of the port authority . Already dubbed the diamond building, the
the “large architectural paintings” to reveal the work of the ZHA study, in Port House is destined to dominate the skyline of the city by redefining the
an ideal connection with the Biennale of Architecture, housed in the lagoon soul of the `T Eilandje neighborhood, in the name and on the (visible) tracks
city. Strongly inspired by Malevich and the Russian avant-garde, the designs of the dream archi-star capable of a sure revolution.
follow the thread of experimentation and the inexhaustible search of the
design team, insisting on the importance of stratification that is created on
the drawing sheet. Because every distortion, fragmentation or revolution is

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