So my thoughts on Zaha...
Her office and working environment sounds like a place I would never want to work. It sounds like something out of a sci-fi movie; All the employees hook up to computers, connected together digitally as one giant CAD organism, working in silence, fixed to their screen as if in some weird trance. But obviously it works since Zaha has created, from this giant organism, some of the most recognisable architecture in the world today.
Regarding physical location, she appears in the article not to be engaged with her surroundings in London. This is reflected in her architecture around the globe that turns its back on the historicism of their locations.
I respect the way that throughout the interview with Meades, as well as in the rest of her life, she plays her cards very close to her chest. It is clear in this piece that this woman is very clever; of course, she knows why her buildings appear as they do. She rightly doesn't give away any trade secrets to the ways in which she designs her architecture, why should she? Zaha knows the second she does copycat designs will spring up all over the place. Cheap knock offs of Zaha's style, like knock off Rolexes (half the price, looks similar from afar, but will develop problems fairly quickly), which means she will possibly lose out on commissions. I can see in the future she may write a book which will explain all her secrets, but until that time why not keep making her mark, unchallenged, on the architectural landscape of cities that can be recognised as unmistakably Zaha.
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