I have never known anyone whose reputation provoked more terror yet whose actual presence was more fun than Dame Zaha Hadid’s, reports John Seabrook on newyorker.com about the passing last week of the brilliant architect.
On the occasions that we spent together when I was working on my 2009 Profile and then, more recently, at a 2015 New Yorker Festival event, I was struck anew by the warmth and humanity that this supposed harridan radiated, Seabrook wrote.
For more, including photos of some of Hadid's great innovations: http://kenallensforum.blogspot.com/