Zaha Hadid Architects ‘dismayed’ by allegations against Schumacher

By Elizabeth Hopkirk2020-11-25T06:00:00

Patrik Schumacher at Negroni Talk: The Problem with Affordable Housing_10 ©

Source: Agnese Sanvito

Judge rules against ZHA principal as ‘toxic dispute’ over practice and its founder’s £100m estate is finally settled

Patrik Schumacher has emerged bruised from a long-running legal row that threatened to tear apart the practice he ran with the late Zaha Hadid.

Hadid’s long-term collaborator settled his “toxic dispute” with the three other executors of the architect’s will out of court after more than three years of bitter in-fighting that exploded into the public arena.

One significant matter that could not be resolved ended up before a judge at the High Court, this month in a case said to have cost millions of pounds that will come out of Hadid’s £100m estate.

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