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Previously unseen drawings and notebooks belonging to Zaha Hadid (1950-2016) go on display next month at the Serpentine Sackler Gallery in London, giving an intimate insight into the formative years of the visionary architect and celebrating her enduring spirit for experimentation. Her designs for the Guggenheim’s 1992 exhibition ‘The Russian and Soviet Avant-garde’ already show a masterful grip on space and shape, seen in the dynamic slithers of crimson and scatterings of sculpted blocks spiralling across the canvas. And striking paintings for a project entitled ‘Visions for Madrid’ represent her attempt to arrest the city’s collapse into formlessness and organise the ’anarchic spread of development’. The Serpentine Sackler Gallery, renovated and extended by Hadid’s practice in 2013, is a fitting location for this homage, which was curated in collaboration with Hadid herself, prior to her untimely passing.