The Easel

From the archives: Wallpaper’s 2008 profile of the late Zaha Hadid

The recent death of star architect Zaha Hadid was widely covered, and appropriately so. A good video piece by Will Gompertz (2 min) is here and images of her work here. The linked piece is perhaps the pick of the lot. “[Zaha’s] architecture is the greatest art of the moment.” Her Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Centre is “a delightful architectural metaphor for the cliché of blurred boundaries between art and life.”