"It's a triple whammy," [Hadid] told the BBC Radio 4 in February. "I'm a woman, which is a problem to many people. I'm a foreigner — another problem. And I do work which is not normative, which is not what they expect. Together, it becomes difficult."
Like any high-profile architect, Hadid was expected to produce strong, functional designs. But as a woman, she also faced the added pressure of having her work interpreted as some sort of gender statement.
— Los Angeles Times
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Because the Internet is fueled by hot takes?
Whatever it means, this is certainly a litmus test for the current design media. It seems there are very few that explored her craft with any depth or meaning. It could have been more slyly handled, instead we got a lot of think pieces about what she meant as a 'female starchitect' by journalists with no expertise in the subject.
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