‘Zaha Hadid transformed our ideas of what architecture could be’

Zaha Hadid, who died suddenly in March aged 65, transformed our ideas of what architecture might be. The first woman to win the Pritzker Architecture Prize was born in Baghdad in 1950, moving to London in the early 1970s to pursue her architectural education. Hadid first made her name not by actually building but with paintings of her ideas. Her series of large, black-ground paintings won her the 1983 competition for The Peak Leisure Club in Hong Kong. The cantilevered, dynamic forms she depict