With colorful illustrations, Jeanette Winter tells the story of Zaha Hadid and how she became a radical architect.

In this children's book, "The World Is Not a Rectangle," with colorful illustrations the author and illustrator Jeanette Winter portrays the life of Zaha Hadid, in this nonfiction picture book, with a selection of her works, and her world of inspirations.

Zaha Hadid grew up in Baghdad, Iraq, and dreamed of designing her own cities. After studying architecture in London, she opened her own studio and started designing buildings. But as a Muslim woman, Hadid faced many obstacles. Determined to succeed, she worked hard for many years, and achieved her goals—and now you can see the buildings Hadid has designed all over the world.

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Jeanette Winter offers a playful glimpse into Zaha Hadid's world, inviting the young readers to approach things with Zaha's perspective, who was able to see beyond everyday objects.


Winter illustrates some of Zaha's eye-catching buildings including Qatar's Al Wakrah Stadium, Signature Towers in Dubai,  Beijing's Galaxy Soho, Guangzhou Opera House in China, and Phnom Penh, Cambodia's Sleuk Rith Institute, and, with a simple language,explains how each of those buildings were inspired by natural elements. "Zaha remembers the grasses in the marshes swaying, and sees tall buildings dancing like grass...Zaha looks at stones in a stream, and builds an opera house like the pebbles in the water... Zaha looks up at the stars and galaxies and sees swirling buildings."

Published by Simon & Schuster, "The World Is Not a Rectangle" will be released on Aug. 22.

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Jeanette Winter
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Jeanette Winter
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For Ages: 5 - 10
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Zaha Hadid, (Bagdad, 31 October 1950 – Miami, 31 March 2016) founder of Zaha Hadid Architects, was awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize (considered to be the Nobel Prize of architecture) in 2004 and is internationally known for both her theoretical and academic work.

Each of her dynamic and innovative projects builds on over thirty years of revolutionary exploration and research in the interrelated fields of urbanism, architecture and design. Hadid’s interest lies in the rigorous interface between architecture, landscape and geology as her practice integrates natural topography and human-made systems, leading to experimentation with cutting-edge technologies. Such a process often results in unexpected and dynamic architectural forms.

Education: Hadid studied architecture at the Architectural Association from 1972 and was awarded the Diploma Prize in 1977.

Teaching: She became a partner of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, taught at the AA with OMA collaborators Rem Koolhaas and Elia Zenghelis, and later led her own studio at the AA until 1987. Since then she has held the Kenzo Tange Chair at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University; the Sullivan Chair at the University of Illinois, School of Architecture, Chicago; guest professorships at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Hamburg; the Knolton School of Architecture, Ohio and the Masters Studio at Columbia University, New York. In addition, she was made Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Fellow of the American Institute of Architecture and Commander of the British Empire, 2002. She is currently Professor at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, Austria and was the Eero Saarinen Visiting Professor of Architectural Design at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.

Awards: Zaha Hadid’s work of the past 30 years was the subject of critically-acclaimed retrospective exhibitions at New York’s Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in 2006, London’s Design Museum in 2007 and the Palazzo della Ragione, Padua, Italy in 2009. Her recently completed projects include the MAXXI Museum in Rome; which won the Stirling award in 2010. Hadid’s outstanding contribution to the architectural profession continues to be acknowledged by the most world’s most respected institutions. She received the prestigious ‘Praemium Imperiale’ from the Japan Art Association in 2009, and in 2010, the Stirling Prize – one of architecture’s highest accolades – from the Royal Institute of British Architects. Other recent awards include UNESCO naming Hadid as an ‘Artist for Peace’ at a ceremony in their Paris headquarters last year. Also in 2010, the Republic of France named Hadid as ‘Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres’ in recognition of her services to architecture, and TIME magazine included her in their 2010 list of the ‘100 Most Influential People in the World’. This year’s ‘Time 100’ is divided into four categories: Leaders, Thinkers, Artists and Heroes – with Hadid ranking top of the Thinkers category.

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Published on: August 14, 2017
Cite: "The World Is Not a Rectangle. A New Children's Book Encapsulates Zaha Hadid's Inspiring World" METALOCUS. Accessed
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