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. My evolving perspectives within the vicissitudes of experiences closely orbiting with Zaha during this time are inscribed within roughly 6,400 pages from my personal journals, diaries, and scrapbook recordings during those years as her Student, Apprentice, Loyal-friend, Confidant and Design Collaborator.
I continue coordinating my precious personal formatted memories and episodes with Zaha Hadid through the many thousands of pages to establish these accounts within coherent narratives to form a specific new project to publish, yet not the typical structure of a memoir. This project is further illustrating her unwavering modernist mindset, courage, and leadership characteristics within my intimate viewpoints. 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…
Of course, hundreds of people embrace their own personal cherished memories of Zaha. Dozens of individuals have already published comparable articles, videos, and shared identical photos with similar accounts of their memories of 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
