Parc de la Villette Project, Paris, France (Jogging Track)
Zaha Hadid
British, born Iraq. 1950–2016
1982-83
A color‑pencil drawing on tracing paper in which Zaha Hadid distills the idea of a jogging track into a single sinuous gesture, attempting to turn movement and circulation into an architectural proposition.
Set against a wide, white expanse, a few fine, calligraphic strokes curve and taper like a fleeting motion drawn in midstride, so that the surrounding emptiness feels charged with speed and potential.
The drawing captures Hadid’s early method of using abstract, movement‑led lines to imagine urban form, a practice that helped push architecture toward conceptual, deconstructivist and later computational ways of thinking about landscape and circulation.
Medium
Color pencil on tracing paper
Dimensions
11 3/4 x 16 1/2" (29.8 x 41.9 cm)
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Credit
Gift of the architect in honor of Philip Johnson
Accession
357.1996.9
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