On the media coverage of Zaha Hadid's death

摘要

Like so many of the responses to Zaha Hadid's unexpected death in the early hours of 31 March 2016, the 'analysis' by BBC Arts Editor Will Gompertz was published online only a few hours after the announcement made by her practice. It was clearly hastily written. Whilst Gompertz at least acknowledged Hadid as 'one of the world's great architects', even if only within the limited time frame 'of the 21st Century and late 20th Century', he went on to describe the 'sensuous lines' of her architecture, and to make the infuriating claim that 'she brought a femininity to Modernism'.