But if anyone today can still find romance in a machine, it’s Zaha Hadid. In the 1970s Hadid rejected both Post-Modern historicist kitsch and the failed utopias of “first” Modernism to think up a new “super-Modernism”, with all the romance of those early days before the cynicism set in. Hadid rhapsodised about Modernism’s roots, holding close to her heart Kasimir Malevich’s words: “We can only perceive space when we break free from the Earth, when the point of support disappears.”