
Zaha Hadid
BMW Central Building, Leipzig, Germany
Todd Gannon(Editor)
Princeton Architectural Press
1st Edition
Published on 10. August 2006
Book
Paperback/Softback
160 pages
978-1-56898-536-7 (ISBN)
Description
Zaha Hadid's highly inventive and seemingly unbuildable designs have defied conventional ideas of architectural space and construction. The BMW Central Building in Leipzig, Germany is no exception. It is the heart of the BMW factory complex - the dynamic focal point of the entire plant that visually, physically, and experientially sustains a sense of animation and motion. With an audacious and abstracted geometry of forms and lines, the BMW Central Building challenges the notion of building as static and is definitive evidence of architecture as art. "Zaha Hadid/BMW Central Building", the seventh volume in the "Source Books in Architecture" series, provides a comprehensive look at this instant modern masterpiece.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
164
64 s/w Abbildungen, 64 s/w Zeichnungen, 164 farbige Abbildungen, 164 Farbfotos bzw. farbige Rasterbilder
228 illus., 164 in color.
Dimensions
Height: 23 cm
Width: 20 cm
ISBN-13
978-1-56898-536-7 (9781568985367)
Schweitzer Classification
Person
Todd Gannon is an architect, teacher, and writer based in Los Angeles. He has taught architectural theory and design at the Knowlton School of Architecture and Otis College of Design. In addition to Source Books in Architecture, his writings have appeared in Log, Dialogue, Loud Paper, and elsewhere. He is currently pursuing a doctoral degree at UCLA.