![‘Zaha Hadid Architects and the Neoliberal Avant-Garde’ is an article written by Owen Hatherley first published at Mute. It actually dissects the financial architecture of the internationally renown firm that proclaims to be the ultimate new avant-garde, while it designs complex parametric shapes for the ambitious power elite. [If you prefer Spanish, you can find it translated at tin:tank]
Owen Hatherley is the author of ‘Militant Modernism’ (Zero, 2009)and ‘A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain’ (Verso 2010). He writes (Archinect, Cabinet, Frieze, The Guardian, etc) and travels widely. His blog: ‘Sit down man, you are a bloody tragedy’
Photo: Zaha Hadid Architects. Guangzhou Opera House, China](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lk2jckkETA1qjrng0o1_500.jpg)
‘Zaha Hadid Architects and the Neoliberal Avant-Garde’ is an article written by Owen Hatherley first published at Mute. It actually dissects the financial architecture of the internationally renown firm that proclaims to be the ultimate new avant-garde, while it designs complex parametric shapes for the ambitious power elite. [If you prefer Spanish, you can find it translated at tin:tank]
Owen Hatherley is the author of ‘Militant Modernism’ (Zero, 2009)and ‘A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain’ (Verso 2010). He writes (Archinect, Cabinet, Frieze, The Guardian, etc) and travels widely. His blog: ‘Sit down man, you are a bloody tragedy’
Photo: Zaha Hadid Architects. Guangzhou Opera House, China
