Zaha Hadid 1950-2016: Zaha Hadid was "part of a mini-rebellion" as a student at London's Architectural Association, setting the tone for the career that followed, says Nicholas Boyarsky, son of former AA director Alvin Boyarsky. In this exclusive interview, he shares some of the drawings from his father's collection, and remembers growing up under Hadid's influence.
Alvin Boyarsky was director of London's Architectural Association from 1971 to 1990, a period that saw architects including Hadid, Bernard Tschumi and Rem Koolhaas pass through the doors as students and young teachers.
His son spoke exclusively to Dezeen following Hadid's sudden death on Thursday at the age of 65.

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"Zaha stood out from the start," Nicholas Boyarsky told Dezeen. "She would, for example, make her own clothes by stapling cloth together."
"She was part of a mini-rebellion against the prevailing early 70s ethos in architectural education when many students did not really draw or design but talked instead of megastructural systems and processes, alternative lifestyles and so on," he said. "Zaha and her friends went to Alvin and demanded to draw architecture, and Alvin set them up with an independent studio. I guess the die was cast from that point."
Hadid joined the school as a student in 1972, where she met Alvin as a first-year student. It was there that she met Koo...