Design Adventures with Zaha Hadid is a succession of memoirs and anecdotes spanning 30 years of my particular personal revelations, and challenging design adventures with the world renowned architect Zaha M. Hadid. These experiences from my orbiting and evolving perspectives with Zaha inscribed within 4,700+ note pages from my court of record personal diaries, will further illustrate her unwavering modernist mindset, courage, and leadership characteristics.  Zaha’s life unfolded into an unprecedented architectural career, personal accomplishments and heartbreaks; a testimony to her sheer willpower and female vibrancy to eclipse the world’s architectural culture ongoing until her untimely departure from Earth on March 31, 2016…
Hundreds of people embrace their own cherished memories of Zaha.  Multiple dozens of individuals published comparable articles, and shared simialr photos and accounts of their memories to Zaha the day she passed, and soon after.
See below brief news video reports by channel 4 British Public Broadcast, and the BBC News from 2016 of Zaha Hadid's untimely death:
'Dame Zaha Hadid: acclaimed female architect dies aged 65' Channel 4 News, UK
Zaha Hadid: A Look Back at Her Work - BBC News

Zaha M. Hadid & Simon Koumjian III in Zaragoza, Spain-2008

Reflections with Zaha Hadid in her Dallington Street flat, London;  morning after her 2015 eventful last birthday party events...


Zaha M. Hadid wins the 2004 Pritzker Architecture Prize. Ceremonies in  St. Petersburg, Russia   

Zaha M. Hadid: Pritzker Architecture Prize -May 2004 in St. Petersburg, Russia  

Soho House, NYC screening room in April 2015 presented the BBC documentary film ' Who Dares Wins:Zaha Hadid.    Q&A following the screening lead by Kyle Bergman with Simon Koumjian III
CLICK below image for link to BBC documentary film:
View the BBC Documentary, above:
Zaha Hadid. Who Dares Wins. Architecture Documentary

Meshworks, Zaha Hadid: Rome 2000- Villa Medici garden exhibition: 
'Le Jardin' installation - Zaha's first garden installation (below)
Vitra Fire Station Zaha Hadid: Germany 1993
Zaha's first architecture building completed (below)

Vitra Fire Station 1990-1993

Vitra Fire Station 1990-1993

Image and link from Interview 'Dame Zaha Hadid in Conversation: University of London'
Remembering Zaha Hadid- article below:
Public pictures of Zaha Hadid & Patrik Schumacher - a forthright architectural design chemistry, well sometimes

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