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Musings on the life of Zaha Hadid

by Houston Morris | Jun 18, 2023 | Golden Oldie, The Architect

Originally published May 2017. I first came across ‘Zaha’ when I was a student at the Architectural Association (known as the AA) in the early 1990s. She was always known just as Zaha. She never required a last name as everyone knew who she was. She had rock star...

How does it make you feel?

by Richard Rose-Casemore | Jan 13, 2021 | The Architect

This article was first published in September 2017. I’m regularly appalled at the banality of post-match – or at least post-achievement – interviews of sports people still dripping from their efforts. As if it isn’t enough to hijack them before...

City thoughts: part three

by Simon Allford | Dec 27, 2017 | The Architect

Read part one Read part two Earlier this year at Zaha Hadid’s memorial service, as speeches, including one by her friend Lord Palumbo (all ill-assisted by unnecessary artificial amplification), echoed incoherently around the great vessel I was reminded how St...