When news broke on Thursday morning that architect Zaha Hadid had died, she was quickly mourned by a trio of her peers: Frank Gehry and Joseph Giovannini sat together over breakfast and called Robert A.M. Stern to have a group cry.
“We just loved her,” Gehry tells TIME. “We’d just seen her a few weeks ago at Yale,” where he and Hadid were teaching concurrent studios. “It’s one of the things we do—we time them so we’re all together at Yale at the same time so we can sort of hang out.”
— TIME
In a touching piece, TIME records Frank Gehry's reactions to the death of Zaha Hadid, a close personal friend and colleague.
Gehry helped Hadid obtain her first major commission, the Vitra Fire Station in Germany. “She did an extraordinary job with it,” Gehry recalls. “Everybody was impressed, and she took off.”
Among the other quotable moments in the article, Gehry notes that "she was one of the guys," before correcting himself: “[That’s] sexist in its own way I suppose. I don’t mean it that way ... She was undaunted by all the stuff that would be against a woman coming into a field at that level. She didn’t pay attention to it … She was very confident."
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RESPECT, Dame Zaha Hadid
... and So she said goodbye while we anticipated more
Thanks for playing your part well in "this thing of ours architecture"
Thanks for the legacy and lessons left behind
Thanks for thinking outside the box and been a trailblazer
if for nothing,
WOMEN have no excuse not to be great "in this thing of ours"
and for most men, what a benchmark you have set for them!
at 65 you are certified LEGEND and like the greats before you,
its certainly not the END
Like our funny MEME that says "DEATH is not an option",
am sure your trailblazing in the after life.
RESPECT Dame Zaha, you done Good. RIP (1950-2016)
-z.g.barwa [tribute to a legend] 31:03:2016
This picture tells a lot about these people.
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