Zaha Hadid Rides The Crest Of A Wave

Why, Zaha Hadid, did no woman win the Pritzker Prize before you? “‘It’s not because of lack of talent: When I teach, the best students are women.’ Rather, ‘everything that has to do with this profession is male,’ she explains. The job requires ‘continuity’ and round- the-clock work, she says, and is tough to combine with motherhood. In the trade, ‘people don’t treat women well,’ Hadid says; she has only just ‘graduated from that prejudice.'”