by Susan Oakes

Artwork Description

Zaha Hadid: Queen of the Curve

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This is a composite of a High Line area residential building, 520 W. 28th St. New York, NY designed by Zaha Hadid. She was an Iraqi-British architect, the first woman to receive the Pritzker Architecture Prize, in 2004. She received the UK’s most prestigious architectural award, the Stirling Prize, in 2010 and 2011. In 2012, she was made a Dame by Elizabeth II for services to architecture, and in 2015 she became the first and only woman to be awarded the Royal Gold Medal from the Royal Institute of British Architects. She was described by The Guardian of London as the “Queen of the Curve”, who “liberated architectural geometry, giving it a whole new expressive identity”. My composite, incorporating a few different views of the building, as well as color from some of her artwork, is my homage to her ground breaking talent and incredible ability to turn a male dominated field on its head.

Artwork Details

Medium: Digital Art

Genre: Expressionism