“Zaha Hadid is architecture’s diva, the most precocious talent in her profession… Ms. Hadid is not interested in emulating period styles, Modernist or otherwise. Yet her buildings are obviously deeply rooted in their context… For all the apparent radicalism of her forms, Ms. Hadid’s work forms a bridge from early Modernism to the digital age. By collecting such disparate strands into one vision, she defiantly embraces a cosmopolitanism that is hard put to assert itself in our dark age.”