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A photographer’s view of Zaha Hadid’s architecture
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There is perhaps no one outside the firm more familiar with Zaha Hadid’s built oeuvre than the architecture photographer Hélène Binet. For the past 30 years she has shot most of Hadid’s buildings, both completed and under construction. Here she has compiled her own selection for uncube from her many photographs of Hadid-under-construction, offering a glimpse behind the scenes and revealing the enormous effort involved to create her light and fluid forms. The quotes are taken from an extensive interview with Hélène Binet which you can read in full on the uncube blog.
Previous page: Heydar Aliyev Centre, Baku 2012; this page: Vitra Fire Station, Weil am Rhein, 1993
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Phaeno Science Centre, Wolfsburg, 2003
»Whenever there is a project where Zaha is pushing the boundaries and limits of building technology and our imagination of what is feasible, and when there is a specific moment when this becomes visible on the site – then I would go there.«
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»What I am looking for is this moment when technology is stretched to its limits and becomes clearly visible.«
Phaeno Science Centre, Wolfsburg, 2003
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Heydar Aliyev Centre, Baku, 2012
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Vitra Fire Station, Weil am Rhein, 1993
»There is an aesthetic in how a building is made, how you pour the concrete and assemble the steel, and I want to show the beauty of this moment.”«
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Hélène Binet (*1959) comes from a Swiss and French background. She studied photography at the Istituto Europeo di Design in Rome and started working as regular photographer at the Grand Theatre de Geneva in Switzerland, where she “fell in love with the world of shadows and light”, as she once put it. She then moved to London where she slowly made her way into architecture photography, following the works of Daniel Libeskind, Peter Zumthor, Caruso St. John, Zaha Hadid, John Hejduk or David Chipperfield, some of these over many years. Binet has always followed her love of light and shadows, producing some of the most dramatic black-and-white-images of the buildings, which she portrays rather than documents. She also is an advocate of analogue photography and has worked exclusively on film right up until today.
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»I see a strong sense of freedom in her buildings. They are not places to meditate, to sit and think in quietness. They are places to fly.«
Read the full interview with Hélène Binet on the uncube blog.
Port House, Antwerp, 2015
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