Editor's Note, 2/5/19: This story has been updated to include a statement from Zaha Hadid Architects.
The future of the firm Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) will be determined by a claim, or lawsuit, making its way through the High Court of Justice in London. The suit centers on who will control Zaha Hadid Holdings (ZHH)—the sole shareholder of the firm—and, thus, the future of the practice. Patrik Schumacher, the only partner of the firm, was Zaha Hadid’s chief architectural collaborator. After Hadid’s death in March 2016, Schumacher was named one of four directors of ZHH. Now he has brought the claim against the other three directors of the holding company: the architect’s niece, Rana Hadid, and two of Zaha’s friends—Brian Clarke, a stained glass maker, and Lord Peter Palumbo, a developer and architecture connoisseur who formerly chaired the Pritzker Architecture Prize jury.
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