The juxtapositions of Zaha Hadid's architectural models and drawings and
Judith Turner's photographs of the architect's buildings in this volume
reveal that Hadid and Turner are complicit. Hadid does not design with
complete geometries in stable configurations, but designs instead with
incomplete or distorted geometries that are dynamic and visually
unstable. Turner does the same in her photographs, cropping before a
form completes itself in a frame that leaves the rest of the form
suggested outside the frame. Hadid structures her designs dynamically
with diagonal lines and oblique planes playing with and against each
other in three-dimensional fields.