“Today, armed with a clutch of actual buildings, a Pritzker Prize and a pile of big commissions (as well as the Guggenheim show), 56-year-old Hadid has joined the select society of designers charged with keeping the future up-to-date. Her architecture is so impeccably modern – so virtuously free of reference to Greek temples or Gothic cathedrals – that it appears to belong to a time the rest of us haven’t experienced yet.”