This month, on March 31st, marks the first annual memorial for the late Dame, Zaha Hadid, the celebrated Iraq-born London-based Architect.
Zaha?s fascinating designs are everywhere, from United Kingdom to Japan, Lebanon, China, Azerbaijan, and others. Over the past decades, she has changed from being the architect with unbuildable design to someone who can’t stop building inspiring and challenging buildings. Her brilliant work made her take a place alongside Jim Stirling, Norman Foster, her mentor Koolhaas, Renzo Piano, and Alvaro Siza, by winning the Pritzker Prize (which is rated as architecture’s equivalent to the Nobel Prize). Zaha is the only female architect to receive both the Royal Institute of British Architects’ Gold Medal, and the Pritzker Prize. This by far contributes to making her widely considered one of the most influential contemporary female architects in the world.
Heydar Aliyev Cultural Center in Baku, Azerbaijan.

?A planet in her own inimitable orbit? by this phrase Rem Koolhaas has described Zaha when she graduated after studying with him at the Architectural Association in the 1970s. This shall bring the question of how do leading Architects and prominent figures in the industry think of an Architect like Zaha and her work" On the occasion of her memorial, the following lines grasp some testimonials and paid tributes to a very special Architect as Zaha.
?How do you sum Zaha up" A gre...