Zaha Hadid Quotes
I will always have two regrets. I don't have a presence in London, and I would have liked to have done more work in the Middle East.
Hadid, Zaha. Interview by Kirsty Young. Desert Island Discs, BBC Radio 4, 15 Feb. 2015.
See George W. Bush {596316} for the origin of “axis of Evil.
Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid DBE RA was a British Iraqi architect, artist and designer, recognised as a major figure in architecture of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Born in Baghdad, Iraq, Hadid studied mathematics as an undergraduate and then enrolled at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in 1972. In search of an alternative system to traditional architectural drawing, and influenced by Suprematism and the Russian avant-garde, Hadid adopted painting as a design tool and abstraction as an investigative principle to "reinvestigate the aborted and untested experiments of Modernism [...] to unveil new fields of building."