Not feeling the astrological vibes of Hadid? Try: Charlotte Perriand (October 24), Rem Koolhaas (November 17), Giò Ponti (November 18)įrank Gehry, upon entering Oscar Niemeyer’s office for the first time, was handed a sketch of “a row of women lying on the beach, alternately chest up, chest down” and told that it “explained everything.’’ Niemeyer, whose mantra was “form follows feminine,” was never shy about his vices: women, Brazilian landscapes, and cigars. Like the Bauhaus home that Zaha Hadid grew up in, you must jolt the rest of us out of our stupor with your vision of the future, even if, afterwards, you find yourself empty. Scorpio, you must make amends with the fact that you were born with weapons where you should have had hands. With a stern upper lip and a cadre of assistants wielding iPhones, Hadid had no time to pretend she was something that she’s not: Unyielding, insistent, and blessed with visions of the future. With nary a cushion, carpet, or curtain in sight, Hadid explained that she spent most of her time at the office: “It’s not my project,” she explains with the air of someone who is done with the romantic notion of home. In the last years of her life Hadid lived in an austere East London flat that evoked the heartfelt intimacy of a bank lobby. Every time she left home, her home left her. Zaha hadn’t returned before her death in 2016, having no idea what it looks like now: Abandoned, emptied of her family, boarded up.Įven Beirut-her second home, the perennial site of family vacations, and where, eventually, Hadid spent her college years-has been torn asunder by a civil war. Just a short walk from the banks of the Tigris on a eucalyptus-lined street, the late Zaha Hadid’s childhood home is a Bauhaus-style concrete testament to Baghdad’s short-lived love affair with modernism. Not identifying with Bjarke? Feel at one with other architectural Libras like: Maya Lin (October 5), Denise Scott Brown (October 3), Le Corbusier (October 6) Like Bjarke, you must seek authentic and tangible objects to weigh you down in times of crisis. Keep this in mind: Temporary gestures won’t sustain you, but will only keep you afloat. Ingels pleaded with the Danish parliament to let him carry the body of a beloved national symbol across the world. Libras take for granted that each light thing in their lives must be offset by a heavy one, and each fall should be proceeded by an equal rise. That BIG-designed pavilion-ambling, infinite, white, temporary-is anchored by two things taken directly from Copenhagen’s harbor: a small pool of water and a bust of the Little Mermaid.
If Bjarke Ingels could travel back in time, he would probably tell himself that under no circumstances should he be filmed biking through the Danish Pavilion at the Shanghai 2010 Expo set to the soundtrack of “I Gotta Feeling” by the Black Eyed Peas. Not a Piano? More architect and designer Virgos include: David Adjaye (September 22), Ettore Sottsass (September 14), Tadao Ando (September 13)
Virgo, have more faith in what you’ve done. They are almost never over-budget and rarely past schedule. The New York Times headquarters, The Whitney, The Shard, the Menil Collection are all muscular buildings whose true virtue lies in their containment they easily hold everything tasked to them within the brevity of a single outstretched palm. It’s only from a bird’s eye view that these projects reveal your true self: fundamentally practical. And so, like Renzo Piano, you hoard projects that will last you: The $422 million construction of The (new) Whitney took three years, the $135 million Kimbell Museum addition took seven, and the $100 million Centre Pompidou sustained him for six. Born in the pregnant pause right after summer’s harvest, Virgos are consumed by the nagging feeling that, no matter how much you’ve saved, it won’t be enough to last through winter.
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