Zaha: An Architectural Legacy

365 days after Zaha Hadid died, this film takes a leer at her profession, and legacy, by five levels which signal significant progressions in her work. The film begins along with her drawings and art work while on the Architectural Affiliation, then captures her first constructed project at Vitra, moving on to the Stirling Prize-winning MAXXI, which secured her web site in the architectural canon, and the London Aquatics Centre – a constructing which made her known to the final public – and finishes with the Maths Gallery on the Science Museum, accomplished factual months after her loss of life.

That comprises interviews with those that knew her including lengthy-time collaborator Patrik Schumacher, architects Eva Jiricna and Nigel Coates, urbanist Ricky Burdett, AJ editor-in-chief Christine Murray and engineer Hanif Kara, the film affords considerate perception into the influence Zaha had on the architectural profession.

Produced by Laura Mark and filmed by Jim Stephenson for the AJ.