Zaha Hadid

Episode 48 - Zaha Hadid<span class= "Apple-converted-space"> </span> <p> </p> <p>In our last episode of 2021, The DLS team of Susan Stone, Katy Derbyshire, and Florian Duijsens all come together to clink glasses of bubbly, and discuss our favorite Dead Lady news of the year.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p> <p> </p> <p>Plus, DLS Producer and journalist Susan Stone presents our featured Dead Lady, architect Zaha Hadid.<span class= "Apple-converted-space"> </span> Born in Baghdad, Zaha started her creative life early, designing her own clothes and furniture at the age of 7 or 8.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> She studied at, then taught at, the Architectural Association School in London, where she honed her boundary-breaking skills and unmatchable style.<span class="Apple-converted-space">   </span></p> <p> </p> <p>Both life and her designs threw a series\ of curves her way, but she excelled and inspired, becoming the first woman to with the Pritzker Architecture Prize, considered the Nobel Prize for architecture, as well as many more accolades and contracts, eventually designing everything from schools to shoes. Along the way she faced notable sexism and racism as one of few women and Arabs in the field. But she wowed critics, and created some of the most incredible buildings the world has ever seen before her death at the age of 65 in 2016.<span class= "Apple-converted-space"> </span></p> <p> </p> <p>Find our more about Zaha Hadid on our show notes page here: https://deadladiesshow.com/2021/12/15/podcast-48-zaha-hadid/</p> <p> </p> <p>Our theme music is “Little Lily Swing” by Tri-Tachyon.</p> <p> </p> <p>Thanks for listening! We’ll be back with a new episode next month.</p> <p> </p> <p>****</p> <p>The Dead Ladies Show is a series of entertaining and inspiring talks about women who achieved amazing things against all odds, presented live in Berlin and beyond. This podcast is based on that series. Because women's history is everyone's history.</p> <p> </p> <p>The Dead Ladies Show was fou