Parc de la Villette Project, Paris, France (Plan)

Zaha Hadid

1982-83

An architectural proposal rendered as ten photoelectrostatic prints on polymer sheets fastened with metal screws, in which Zaha Hadid stages a fragmented, kinetic plan for Parc de la Villette that choreographs movement and events across the site.

You’re struck by translucent, layered drawings of intersecting diagonals and spidery lines that seem to rotate and explode across the sheet, with faint typed notes at the top and isolated geometric ‘follies’ giving a ghostly sense of simultaneity and motion.

These graphic, collage-like plans exemplify Hadid’s radical 1980s approach—turning architectural drawing into a performative act that helped define deconstructivist and avant‑garde architectural thinking and opened new ways to imagine urban experience.

Palette

Art Terms

Architectural drawing Architecture Plan drawing Collage Print Plastic Avant-garde

Exhibitions

Visionary Architecture

1960

Deconstructivist Architecture

1988

Modern Architecture for the Modern School

1942

Architectural Models from the Collection

1974