Building Zaha by Victoria Tentler-Krylov

Wafa Tarnowska and Estelí Meza 14.95 13.90 Pre-Order Building Zaha: The Story of Architect Zaha Hadid Victoria Tentler-Krylov 18.99 17.66 add to cart Two Parrots Rashin 8. A memorable introduction to a visionary architect. Amazing Women of the Middle East: 25 Stories to Inspire Girls. With fluid lines and vibrant watercolor washes, the well-composed double-page scenes vividly illustrate Hadid’s life and work. 1, 2017 Jane Addams’ life was dedicated to helping others. DANGEROUS JANE by Suzanne Slade illustrated by Alice Ratterree RELEASE DATE: Sept. Text and art work well together in portraying her forceful, flamboyant personality, her strong determination, and her brilliant architectural designs. BUILDING ZAHA by Victoria Tentler-Krylov illustrated by Victoria Tentler-Krylov bookshelf An attractive volume introducing an important American to young readers. And by helping readers imagine the challenges of designing a building, she enables them to appreciate Hadid’s process and achievements. As an architect, Tentler-Krylov brings an abundance of understanding to her subject’s profession and the obstacles she faced. Despite the experience of sometimes having her designs chosen in competitions but later abandoned, she gradually gained a recognition for creating innovative, dynamic buildings, and in 2004, she won the Pritzker Prize.

She pursued her own path, guided by the dual goals of creating harmony between people and their surroundings and suggesting a sense of continuous movement and change. A bright student who was fascinated by construction, Hadid became a hard-working, imaginative architect in an era when few women entered the profession. This picture-book biography of Zaha Hadid opens with scenes of the architect as a child, visiting local Baghdad’s mosques and palaces as well as the Sumerian wetlands, where people built floating homes amid the flowing waterways and rippling grasses. Building Zaha : the story of architect Zaha Hadid Author: Tentler-Krylov, Victoria Publisher: Orchard Books (2020) Dewey: 720.

Building Zaha by Victoria Tentler-Krylov