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 ‘vision’ than public utility. [...]
From the air, Hadid’s 2022 World Cup stadium with its almond-shaped opening and labial folds looks bogglingly like giant pudenda.
— spectator.co.uk
Sure, roasting starchitects is fun, and – at its best – 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 The Heckler's, which discredits any otherwise pointed jabs at Zaha by wrapping them in sexist stereotypes. See if you can spot them all!
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Holy balls. Way to go. Assholes. Typical of the British tabloid media?
If we're bringing out all the typical sexist tropes, then it's fair for me to speculate that Stephen Bayley was furiously masturbating as he wrote this, right? I mean, the article is entirely about his own boner.
British tabloids make TMZ look like The Atlantic in comparison.
All I got out of this is that Stephen Bayley can't figure out which he hates more: architecture or women. And he doesn't even have the wit to make his trolling entertaining. Another charlatan epigone.
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