Article: Zaha Hadid: how do you answer critics who call you a diva? If you're architect Zaha Hadid, by creating buildings that cannot be ignored. Here, she speaks with fellow rafter raiser and every young architect's hero, Rem Koolhaas.

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The past few years have been big ones in the career of Zaha Hadid. Last March she was awarded the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize, marking the first time a woman has been so honored. And in May 2003 her Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art was opened in Cincinnati to immediate and wide acclaim (at last bringing one of her visionary structures to American shores). These successes are especially poignant because for a while it looked as though Hadid was destined to be remembered more for the great buildings she never built than for the ones she did. Though indisputably one of the world's preeminent architects, at 54, this Baghdad-born Londoner has a ...

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