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  Why, you might wonder, is uncube dedicating an entire issue to one of the most controversial figures in architecture today? Dame Zaha Hadid polarises opinion like no other, yet here is a woman who has won every top award worth having in her discipline for her work which undisputedly pushes the technical and formal boundaries of building.

   

  To mark the occasion of her 65th birthday in October 2015 we have consciously put aside for a moment the headline news fodder about working conditions in Qatar, Tokyo Stadium mudslinging and interview fiascos, that you can read about everywhere else, to focus on the actual architecture.
  

   
  

  Issue no. 37 is a portrait of a singular architect whose star has burned a glorious path from her birthplace in Baghdad, through the unbuilt/unbuildable wilderness years, to running a 400-strong office translating her unmistakable forms into the built environment all over the planet.
  
  Love her or hate her, one thing’s for sure: there ain’t nothing like this Dame!

   

  The editors

  Cover image: Zaha Hadid. (Photo: Gautier Deblonde); this page: extract from the “Science Gallery Museum” concept visualisation. (Video courtesy Zaha Hadid Architects)

• COVER

  COVER

  Cover
• Table of contents

  Table of contents
• EDITORIAL

  EDITORIAL

  Editorial
• INTERVIEW

  INTERVIEW

  Hadid

  An interview with the architect Zaha Hadid by Sophie Lovell

  Text: Sophie Lovell
• ESSAY

  ESSAY

  Fluid Freedom

  Zaha Hadid’s Four Decades of Breaking the Box by Aaron Betsky

  Text: Aaron Betsky
• FOUND

  FOUND

  The Asymmetric Mirror

  The young Zaha

  Text: Rob Wilson
• VIEWPOINT

  VIEWPOINT

  A Planet in its Own Orbit

  On being Zaha by Bernard Tschumi

  Text: Bernard Tschumi
• VIEWPOINT

  VIEWPOINT

  Calculated Constructs

  Greg Lynn on the formulas generating success at ZHA

  Text: Greg Lynn
• PHOTO ESSAY

  PHOTO ESSAY

  Under Construction

  Photographer Hélène Binet's view of Zaha Hadid's architecture

  Text: Hélène Binet
• INTERVIEW

  INTERVIEW

  The Aura Comes Later

  An interview with Rolf Fehlbaum of Vitra

  Text: Rob Wilson
• FOUND

  FOUND

  Zaha at the AA

  Student years in London

  Text: Sara Faezypour
• ESSAY

  ESSAY

  A Fine Sculptural Mind

  The Aesthetics of Zaha Hadid by Jonathan Bell

  Text: Jonathan Bell
• VIEWPOINT

  VIEWPOINT

  On a Road to Nowhere

  Moving through the MaXXI in Rome by Rob Wilson

  Text: Rob Wilson
• FOUND

  FOUND

  Pet Shop Girl

  The Nightlife World Tour set 1999-2000

  Text: Sophie Lovell
• FOCUS

  FOCUS

  Brendan Cormier’s

  Focus on Zaha Hadid Design

  Text: Brendan Cormier
• VIEWPOINT

  VIEWPOINT

  Wonderfully Dishonest

  Impressions of the Heydar Aliyev Center in Baku by Vladimir Belogolovsky

  Text: Vladimir Belogolovsky
• PHOTO BOOTH

  PHOTO BOOTH

  In the Photo Booth with...

  Patrik Schumacher

  Text: Sophie Lovell
• VIEWPOINT

  VIEWPOINT

  Mending Space

  Andreas Ruby admires the stitching skills of Zaha Hadid

  Text: Andreas Ruby
• FURTHER READING

  FURTHER READING

  Further Reading
• NEXT

  NEXT

  Next

  Death

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