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Game Changing Architect Zaha Hadid Gets The Google Doodle She Deserves

Game Changing Architect Zaha Hadid Gets The Google Doodle She Deserves

by The Daily Eye Team June 6 2017, 3:42 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 40 secs

”My work is not within the accepted box,” the late architect Zaha Hadid previously told HuffPost. “Maybe because I am a woman. Also an Arab. There was a certain prejudice about these things.” Today, that same outsider is being honored with a Google Doodle, one that celebrates her status as a game-changing designer of the contemporary world.Throughout her life, Hadid spoke openly about the misogyny and racism she encountered as a woman of color working in the world of architecture. As a student at the Architectural Association School in the 1970s, women made up just 6 percent of her field, fellow architect Yasmin Shariff estimated. When Hadid died of a sudden heart attack in 2016, that percentage had jumped to a still-paltry 24 percent. Still, she forged ahead.

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