With a text by Hubertus vom Amelunxen on the architecture and the photography, plus explanations and drawings of the buildings.
Zaha Hadid's architecture has found a worthy equal in Hélène Binet's photography. The high-tension, extended spaces in her architecture, the layers and complex inter-relationships of the various elements, the lightness of the structures and their sculptural beauty, the intermittently bizarre play of the light and the unique atmosphere that ensues'these very particular qualities in Zaha Hadid's architecture present a challenge to the best of photographers. The calm and curiosity with which Hélène Binet gazes through the viewfinder results in images that go beyond the architectonics of the space, and also seem to incorporate the response of the viewer.
This volume brings together photographs of the Vitra-Firestation and Landscape Formation one?both in Weil am Rhein/G; Addressing the Century, Hayward Gallery, London, 1998; Blueprint/Interbuild Pavilion, 1995.
