Zaha Hadid’s Flying Ferocity

When Zaha Hadid’s new building for the Cincinnati Center for Contemporary Art opened in 2003, it was clear her long years in the wilderness, as an architect primarily famous for not getting her buildings built, were over.

Hadid, a drafter of rigorously utopian visions, whose drawings often look like a cross between something by Kandinsky and a cartoon still from “The Jetsons,” was finally seeing her theorizing made real. It was the first major museum in this country designed by a woman. A year later she would be the first woman to win the prestigious Pritzker Prize.

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