Design and Architecture
Zaha Hadid, Burglar's City, Men's Fashion
We pay tribute to a titan of architecture, Zaha Hadid, who died in Miami last week. Writer Geoff Manaugh argues that burglars have a lot to teach architects about buildings. And we remember a time when men wore corsets, padded stockings and used swords as fashion accessories.
By Frances Anderton • • 29m ListenArchitects and critics discuss the legacy of architect Zaha Hadid who died of a heart attack last week in a Miami hospital, at age 65. The Iraqi-born, London-based Hadid designed numerous buildings including the London Olympic Aquatic Centre and the MAXXI National Museum of XXI Century Arts in Rome. She won the Pritzker Prize and the RIBA Gold Medal for architecture, and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 2012. Also on the show, what can burglars teach us about architecture? Quite a lot, according to Geoff Manaugh. In his new book, A Burglar's Guide to the City, he argues that burglars have a unique and knowledgeable understanding of buildings and the urban fabric. And we remember a time when men wore corsets, padded stockings and used swords as fashion accessories, in a conversation about LACMA's new exhibition, Reigning Men: Fashion in Menswear, 1715–2015.
Photo: Zaha Hadid (Mary McCartney)
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3 storiesZaha Hadid
Zaha Hadid was just five years out of architecture school in London when she stunned her peers with her 1982 winning design for The Peak, a leisure club on Victoria Peak overlooking the Hong Kong Harbor.
Read the story13 minGeoff Manaugh
Geoff Manaugh writes about buildings in a way that upends conventional ways of looking at architecture. Now he has published a new book, A Burglar’s Guide to the City . In it, he describes the cat and mouse game that police and thieves play in buildings and in the city, and how crimes often reflect - and shape - the cities in which they occur.
Read the story9 minReigning Men
Los Angeles men are generally comfortable in jeans, sneakers and a t-shirt. But the sartorially challenged may get inspired at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art starting April 10, with the opening of the new exhibition Reigning Men: Fashion in Menswear, 1715–2015 .
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