Plan to drop Zaha Hadid's name revealed in court papers

By Jim Dunton2019-05-17T05:00:00

Court documents reveal warring executors agreed to rebrand practice - but disagree on motive

The feuding executors of Zaha Hadid’s estate have agreed that the late architect’s eponymous practice should stop using her name – but court papers reveal contradictory reasons for the move.

High Court documents seen by Building’s sister title BD show Hadid’s longstanding collaborator and ZHA principal Patrik Schumacher accepts that he consented to drop the name “Zaha Hadid” from the practice at the request of his three fellow executors – artist Brian Clarke, Lord Palumbo and Rana Hadid, Hadid’s niece.

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