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Zaha Hadid, Groundbreaking Architect, Dies at 65 (nytimes.com)
An anonymous reader quotes an article on The New York Times about the death of Zaha Hadid: Zaha Hadid, the Iraqi-British architect whose curving, elongated structures left a mark on skylines around the world, and who was the first woman to win the Pritzker Prize, her profession's highest honor, died on Thursday in Miami. She was 65. Ms. Hadid "contracted bronchitis earlier this week and suffered a sudden heart attack while being treated in hospital," her office, Zaha Hadid Architects in London, said in a statement. [...] She was also a role model and inspiration for generations of young architects, men and women, who wanted to become Ms. Hadid: an architect of boundless ambition, a celebrity, and an artist with big ideas who won commissions for some of the world's big, flashiest projects by the sheer force of her intelligence, creativity and personality. Ms. Hadid epitomized an era when architects became global brands. Her brand promised buildings of extravagant sculptural invention, spectacles of curving, swooping, unprecedented forms. She represented the epitome of the art of so-called parametric design, by which architects, aided by sophisticated computer programs, could animate buildings into new shapes. You will want to read her profile on The Guardian.
Isn't it the construction crew, not the architect, who are "groundbreaking"?
I just looked at her work in images.google. Do not want. They are not really that pleasing to look at. I like the Roman/Greek and large medieval/renaissance buildings - golden ratio, "perfect" aesthetics. These Zaha works are just ugly and trying to be different and lead to higher cost, hard to maintain with that comes leaks and I don't think they are aesthetically pleasing.
Legalize the constitution. Think for yourself question authority.
Why is a tech site celebrating this woman, because she used a computer at work? WTF, is there a feminist story quota on /. now?
How proficient do you need to be at Word to get a write-up now?
What's the tech/geek tie-in? What's the point of coming to a 'news for nerds' website when there are other much better sites to get the same news?
So for those that think all Muslim or middle-eastern peoples are destructive terrorists:
In 2004, Hadid became the first female and first Muslim recipient of the Pritzker Architecture Prize.
Here's a woman who dedicated her life to building great things, rather than tearing them down. I wish that more could use her as an role-model.
At the time of her death, just a reminder that she also represents why Immigration and Refugee asylum is essential.
Growing up in Iraq, she eventually migrated to Britain before creating a mark globally. Made the lives of many a little bit happier as art does.
Listen to the xenophobes and such talent may not get the recognition it deserves and humanity would lose talent that could have been.
Strange, but in college I hung out with more architecture majors than fellow comp/sci folks (their parties were better). Her work is pretty freaking awesome even if I'm not knowledgeable enough to understand it the way an architect would. ...that's sort of the hallmark of a great architect I suppose.
I worked in a couple architecture firms too while in college, I feel bad for kids coming out of architecture school. They're pretty much taught/told to be the next great architect then get out in the real world are are stuck designing Taco Bells and stuff. In Comp/Sci all you need is a laptop, inet connection, and a compiler to do great things but in Architecture, you have to deal in meatspace.
I came to the datacenter drunk with a fake ID, don't you want to be just like me?
I bet a lot of her work was considered "modern" at the time; but when I see this type of architecture I immediately think "60s" +/- 10 years I'd say this style was a big deal from '50 to '70 but by '80 it got tiring.
I like a little modernism though. Remember WaMu? They were a bank that went bust in 2008 and got taken over by Chase. Their building in downtown Redwood City is arguably "just a cold modernist box", but there's something about the way it contrasts with the surroundings, and the way that it's landscaped. I like having a few of those things sprinkled about a city.
Anyway, RIP to this "retro futurist" architect, and yes it's iffy that this is "news for nerds" but at least it's "stuff that matters" because we have to deal with buildings all the time.
Not knowing that much about her, I hope she paid more attention to engineers than Frank Loyd Wright did. There's another nerd angle there--so yes, this story is a fit. It's not like she's a Kardashian or something.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
Because she got sick in Miami?
Seriously, if you need medical attention you're not going to Florida. And if you go to Florida you aren't going to go to Miami, you'd go to Florida Hospital in Orlando.
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Why is a tech site celebrating this woman, because she used a computer at work? WTF, is there a feminist story quota on /. now?
doesn't seem out of place to ask the geek to at least acknowledge the accomplishments of women in architecture and engineering. particularly as expressed in a body of work of such extrordinary audacity and technical sophistication.
I've worked in a building complex designed by Zaha Hadid (the BMW plant office complex in Leipzig) and I have to say that concrete never looked so good. The design is timeless and beautiful.