Lois and Richard Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1999-2003 (above)

Phaeno Science Center, Wolfsburg, Germany, 2000-2005 (below)

Zaha Hadid, 1950-2016

Rest in peace, Dame Hadid. To her endless list of achievements, I’d like to add one more: I am grateful to her for making the world once again safe for Brutalism, with buildings like the Rosenthal Center and Phaeno Science Center.