Art before technology

The tag "paper architect" was sometimes applied to Zaha Hadid (1950-2016) in her early career due to her lack of built work, but the term might be appropriate for an architect who painted, scribbled or drew her ideas before they were rendered by computer.  Her drawings and paintings may have affinity with, for example, Le Corbusier, Scharoun or El Lissitzky in terms of colour and fluidity. Yet, according to Hadid, 'the paintings were always part of the building - but they were never done as pure art’. Instead she used her art to test spatial ideas that she couldn’t yet make concrete without the aid of computer algorithms. Paradoxically, then, it might be said that it was technology that had to catch up with Hadid- not the other way round.