Her name echoes like thunder. Vita and myths intertwine to build her image. Baghdad born, Zaha Hadid grew up in one of the city’s first Bauhaus-inspired buildings, in an era when modernism was associated with glamour and progressive thinking in the Middle East. Legend has it that she sketched her nursery herself. As if that wasn’t exquisite enough, the carpenter used it as a lay out for many more nurseries in the Iraqi capital. Imagine her „earliest“ work replicated all across Baghdad. That by itself justifies an architecture trip, right?