This richly illustrated volume offers a comprehensive overview of the work of the renowned Iraqi architect-from her earliest works realized in 1979 to her most recent projects. An impressive look at the possibilities of architecture on the borderline between the possible and the impossible.

Zaha Hadid: Architecture is published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name at the MAK in Vienna. This is the first book to document the artist´s newest projects and also presents an extensive overview of her oeuvre. One of the most renowned exponents of contemporary architecture, Zaha Hadid has always been in search of a visionary aesthetics covering all areas from urban planning to interior and furniture design.

This publication contains numerous color illustrations of designs, models, and-as yet mostly unpublished-Major Paintings by Hadid, as well as photographs of buildings already built and still under construction, granting insights into all stages of project development from the abstract concept to its technical implementation. The texts by architecture critic Andreas Ruby and Patrik Schuhmacher, project partner at Zaha Hadid Architects, London, are integral parts of the book and shed profound light onto the architect´s oeuvre.

Another special feature is the documentation of the installation Ice-Storm especially developed for the MAK exhibition, a "space experiment" with a surface area of three hundred square meters, providing the audience with a possibility for an active approach to Hadid´s radically new language of form and space.