A design monograph series on the most remarkable architects,
designers, brands and design movements of the twentieth and twenty-first
centuries, each book contains a historical-critical essay discussing the
life and work of the subject, followed by an illustrated appreciation of
groundbreaking work.
One of the few female architects to get world-wide recognition and the
first to receive the Pritzker, Iraqi-British Hadid was nicknamed the
'Queen of the Curve'. Dramatic and confident, her buildings were
influenced by globalism, elegantly flowing yet full of surprises. Her
major works include the London Aquatics Centre for the 2012 Olympics,
Broad Art Museum and the Guangzhou Opera House; many others were
completed after her unexpected death in 2016.