07. Sam Jacob's "Zaha Hadid - In Remembrance"

From the New City Reader's tongue-in-cheek "Obituaries" spread, Sam Jacob looks at Zaha Hadid in a sort of faux-retrospective of her work. While her buildings are ostensibly these great monuments to capitalism, he speculates that perhaps her architecture is ultimately a critique about capitalism and the society that embraces it. The instinct to embrace her sculptural and fantastical forms, along with anything in it, as "capital-A Art" has (or should have) exposed the nature of contemporary culture as being blindly lead by global capitalism, which itself is ultimately hollow.