Abstract
Starchitect Zaha Hadid won the bid to design one of the planned stadiums for the 2022 FIFA World Cup event in Qatar. Her design for the Al-Wakrah stadium became the centrepiece of a discussion on the role that starchitects play in society. That debate reached a boiling point in August 2014, and resulted in a digital lynching party that sheds serious doubts on the ethics and professionalism of architectural critics and journalists alike.
Translated title of the contribution | The powerless starchitect: How Zaha Hadid became the first person working on the Al-Wakrah stadium that actually did die |
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Original language | Russian |
Pages (from-to) | 92-100 |
Journal | Project Baikal |
Volume | 13 |
Issue number | 47-48 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2016 |
Keywords
- starchitect
- Zaha Hadid
- Al-Wakrah stadium
- 2022 FIFA World Cup
- Qatar
- migrant workers
- Nepal
- India
- deaths
- architectural critics
- Martin Filler
- The Guardian