Zaha Hadid, Friend

An obituary for architect Zaha Hadid, who died of a heart attack on Mar 31 at the age of 65, is presented. Hadid studied math at the American University in Beirut. She enrolled at the Architectural Association (AA) in 1972, where Rem Koolhaas, her mentor, locked her up in a studio so that she would focus on learning how to draw. In 1977, she won the first of her architectural awards, the Diploma Prize, given only to one graduating student. She lived in a small mews house which, after the AA, became her first with a triangle and generated architecture in the exploding fallout.