Wed, Nov 5 / 7 pm
Directed by Lindsey Hanlon and Roger Parsons
2013, UK, 75 min
Architecture+Film is an ongoing series of films which focus on architecture and design, co-presented by the Winnipeg Architecture Foundation – a charitable organization dedicated to advancing the awareness and appreciation of Winnipeg’s built environment through public education.
A leader in the deconstructivist movement and the only woman to receive the Pritzker Prize (the Nobel Prize of architecture), Zara Hadid strives to push the laws of gravity. Born in Baghdad in 1950 and now based in London, Hadid is at the peak of her career. Yet this has not always been the case. She once had a reputation of being a “paper architect,” whose projects were impossible to build. How did this extraordinary woman—by turns charming, stubborn, visionary and yet exacting—come to design the impossible? A tour of her many achievements, from Austria to Azerbaijan. – FIFA (International Festival of Films On Art)
This screening is generously sponsored by the Winnipeg Architecture Foundation
