Zaha Hadid: "Niche"

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The first woman to win the Pritzker prize (2004), Zaha Hadid was described by Frank Gehry as a “designer with one of the most defined architectural approaches we've seen in recent years”. << Distancing herself from existing architectural styles, she has changed the geometrics of buildings: from her first designs through to those works still under construction, her personal and ever-original and powerful vision has changed the way in which we view and perceive space. Hadid’s fluid mobility and fragmented geometries do more than create abstract dynamic beauty: her work explores and expresses the world we have inside >>. (A. L. Huxtable). << Her buildings are one of the most convincing arguments in support of the supremacy of architecture in the planning of space. What she has managed to produce with her inimitable manipulation of walls, attics, roofs, with those transparent, intertwined and fluid spaces, is clear proof that architecture, like art, has not yet ceased to act as a driver, and is still strongly involved in creation. >> (J. Silvetti). …and so, with the tea and coffee service for “Tea & Coffee Towers” (2003) and the “Crevasse” vase (2005), she entered into the world of product design.