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Dame Zaha Hadid, the Iraqi-born British architect whose tall structures left a mark on skylines and ...
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Dame Zaha Hadid, the Iraqi-born British architect whose tall structures left a mark on skylines and imaginations around the world and in the process reshaped architecture for the modern age.
She was not an average designer. She liberated architectural geometry( 几何), giving it a whole new expressive identity. Geometry became, in her hands, a vehicle for unprecedented and eye-popping new spaces. Her buildings elevated uncertainty to an art, conveyed in the odd ways.
Her work implying mobility, speed, freedom and uncertainty spoke to a worldview widely shared by a younger generation. “I am not European, I don’t do conventional work and I am a woman,’’ Strikingly Ms. Hadid never allowed herself on her work to be categorized by her background or her gender. And she was one of a kind, a path breaker. In 2004, she became the first woman to win the Pritzker Prize, architecture’s Nobel.
Zaha Hadid was born in Baghdad on October 31, 1950. Then in 1972, she arrived at the architectural association in London, a center for experimental design. Her teachers included Elia Zenghelis and Rem Koolhaas. “They aroused my ambition,” she would recall, “and taught me to trust even my strangest instincts.” By the 1980s she had established her own practice in London. And she began to draw attention with an unrealized plan in 1982—1983 for the Peak Club.
Her partner, Patrick Schumacher, played an instrumental and collaborative role in her career. Mr. Schumacher coined the term parametric(参数的) design to include the computer-based approach that helped the firm’s most weird concepts become reality. Ms. Hadid called what resulted in an organic language of architecture, based on these new tools, which allow us to combine highly complex forms into a fluid(流线的) and complete whole.
Her sources were nature, history or whatever she sought useful. When her Rosenthal Center, a relatively modest project, opened in 2003, Herbert Muschamp, the architecture critic declared it “the most important American building to be completed since the end of the cold war”.
“She was bigger than life, a force of nature,” as Amale Andraos, the dean of Columbia University’s architecture school, put it, “she was a pioneer.”
She was. For women, for what cities can desire to build and for the art of architecture.
1.What features the structures designed by Zaha Hadid?
A.Free architectural geometry. B.Conventional design.
C.Odd imagination. D.Colorful patterns.
2.According to Paragraphs 3 and 4, which of the following statement is TRUE?
A.Zaha Hadid taught herself to trust instincts.
B.The plan for the Peak Club hasn’t been carried out.
C.The architect’s gender influenced her work dramatically.
D.Zaha Hadid was the first architect to win the Pritzker Prize.
3.How did the computer-based approach make a difference to Zaha Hadid’s work?
A.It contributes to realizing the strange ideas.
B.It simplifies the complex structure as a whole.
C.It provides new tools to translate the language.
D.It serves as an instrument to interpret the concepts.
4.The purpose of the passage is to____.
A.present Zaha Hadid’s life experience
B.praise Zaha Hadid’s inspiration and diligence
C.compare Zaha Hadid’s works in different times
D.show Zaha Hadid’s great contributions to architecture
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