Their relationship began in the late 1990s and took a first concrete form in 2000, when Obrist invited Hadid to create Meshworks for the cycle “La Ville, le Jardin, la Mémoire” at Villa Medici. From there, a series of encounters in London, Basel, Munich, and Paris established an ongoing exchange on the city, the museum, and the possibilities of contemporary urbanism. The connection deepened with Obrist’s appointment to the Serpentine Galleries in 2006, of which Zaha Hadid had been a board member since 1996 and for which she had already designed the Pavilion. From early collaborations to shared projects at the Serpentine— such as the 2007 installation Lilas, the Serpentine North Gallery, and The Magazine restaurant — their dialogue consistently moved across scales and contexts, always returning to space as an open field of inquiry.