2024-12-22T08:29:08-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/133651310/fun-game-spot-the-double-standards-in-this-zaha-bashing-piece Amelia Taylor-Hochberg 2015-08-06T15:49:00-04:00 >2018-01-30T06:16:04-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/33/3345a4a72648ae1d5da86c8e776eefb5?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>Zaha Hadid is the most famous woman architect in the world. Would women or, indeed, architecture, be better off without her pushily hard-won, global celebrity? [...] Hadid began a global strut in billowing drapery by Prada or Issey Miyake. She became the champion of an architecture that was more about personal &lsquo;vision&rsquo; than public utility. [...] From the air, Hadid&rsquo;s 2022 World Cup stadium with its almond-shaped opening and labial folds looks bogglingly like giant pudenda.</p></em><br /><br /><p>Sure, roasting starchitects is fun, and &ndash; at its best &ndash; can volley constructive criticism towards those architects most visible in the public eye as "Architects", ideally improving the profession at large. And then there's a piece like&nbsp;<em>The Heckler</em>'s, which discredits any otherwise pointed jabs at Zaha by wrapping them in sexist stereotypes. See if you can spot them all!</p>