in such a manner it only took the P...

in such a manner it only took the Pritzker Prize Committee 25 years and 27 tries (there were sum of two units years with two winners--1988 and 2001) to figure without that a woman might be worthy of architecture's highest honor. Zaha Hadid, the "outrageous in addition thoughtful" (in the words of juror Karen Stein) Baghdad-born Londoner will take hearthstone a check for $100,000 when she receives the Nobel-equivalent prize at the Hermitage in St Petersburg forward May 31.

Hadid is to architecture what Phil Mickelson is to golf--the beloved (if, in Hadid's case, cantankerous) genius who couldn't finish a building built ...