When news broke on Thursday morning that architect Zaha Hadid had died, she was quickly mourned by a trio of her peers: Frank Gehry and Joseph Giovannini sat together over breakfast and called Robert A.M. Stern to have a group cry.

“We just loved her,” Gehry tells TIME. “We’d just seen her a few weeks ago at Yale,” where he and Hadid were teaching concurrent studios. “It’s one of the things we do—we time them so we’re all together at Yale at the same time so we can sort of hang out.”

At the time, he says, Hadid didn’t seem to be feeling well. “She was having trouble walking, a little bit of difficulty, but nobody thought she was at a breaking point.”.....Continue Reading

Top Image: courtesy of azureazure, Zaha Hadid and Frank Genry at  the National YoungArts Foundation: Backyard Ball Gala

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