ZAHA HADID AND SUPREMATISM

This volume juxtaposes the pl anols and angles of Zaha Hadid's (b. 1950) buildings of dynamic sweeping with the equally dynamic art of the Russian suprematist and avant-garde constructivist-as exemplified in the work of Ilya Chashnik, The Lissitzky, Kasimir Malevich, Alexander Rodchenko and Nikolai Suetin. The book documents an extraordinary imaginative exhibition curated and designed by Hadid, which examines this relationship through four themes or aesthetic qualities: Abstraction, distortion, fragmentation, and floating. The exhibition, held at the Galerie Gmurzynska in Zurich in the summer of 2010, was indeed an installation by the Galerie Gmurzynska in Zurich. Continuous art lation or medi ambience, with the rooms drastically striated and sculpted in angular black and white models. Hadid first explored the Russian avant-garde in her graduation project in 1976/77, and therefore, this project represents both an outcome and a amor task for the architect.