

Zaha Hadid: the World loses it's most Futuristic Architect
Zaha Hadid died yesterday at 65 - she was one of the most influential and disruptive architects of our generation - a fellow alumni of my school the AA in London and whose work we always followed for its sheer whimsical futurism and style, was known to be quite a character - a doggedly independent chain-smoking, excessively caffeinated, strapping fighter for her work, demanding boss, tough tutor at the AA and crude, harsh and yet undoubtedly truthful in her critiques - she wa