1. (2) Rupert Murdoch
2. (1) Barack Obama
3. (-) Mahmoud Ahmedinijad
4. (10) Xi Jinping
5. (-) Steve Jobs
6. (26) Pope Benedict XVI
7. (24) Ashfaq Kayani
8. (12) Angela Merkel
9. (4) Eric Schmidt, Larry Page & Sergey Brin
10. (44) Hugo Chavez
11. (-) Binyamin Netanyahu
12. (12) David Petraeus
13. (-) Sarah Palin
14. (-) Craig Venter
15. (-) David Cameron
16. (13) Bill Gates
17. (-) Felipe Calderon
18. (-) Khaled Meshal
19. (25) Warren Buffett
20. (7) Vladimir Putin
21. (8) Osama bin Laden
22. (-) Angelina Jolie
23. (-) Julian Assange
24. (-) Lloyd Blankfein
25. (-) Hillary Clinton
26. (-) Mark Zuckerberg
27. (-) Ratan Tata
28. (-) Stephanie Meyer
29. (31) Sonia Gandhi
30. (-) James Cameron
31. (28) Ingvar Kamprad
32. (-) Stephen McIntyre
33. (-) Moqtada al-Sadr
34. (-) Aung San Suu Kyi
35. (-) Margaret Chan
36. (-) Jacob Zuma
37. (-) Bob Diamond
38. (35) Oprah Winfrey
39. (-) Paul Krugman
40. (36) Mohammed Yunus
41. (34) Simon Cowell
42. (-) Zaha Hadid
43. (22) Amartya Sen
44. (-) Lady GaGa
45. (6) Malalai Joya
46. (-) John Lasseter
47. (-) Julia Gillard
48. (-) Han Han
49. (14) Paul Kagame
50. (-) Caster Semenya
Zaha Hadid aka first-lady of Pritzker aka bad ass architect is number 42 which is perfect since that is the answer to everything; as I suspected architecture has the finger on the pulse.
One day I'll be there - representing!!!!!!!!!!
Source:
New Satesman
Wiki: Zaha Hadid
Zaha Hadid Blog
I would certainly not pay too much attention to these rankings. Most of these newspapers see them very cynically: they are just one way of making sure they sell a lot of copies when nothing in the news sells. Also, we never really know what they mean by "influential" or whatever ambiguous word they use: How is Caster Semenya influent? She is the victim of a media storm rather than anything else. Arguably, some people like Lula (not to mention Strauss-Kahn) have been more influential in world politics than Obama this year. David Cameron has been a complete flop in terms of foreign policy etc.
ReplyDeleteArchitecture has its finger on the pulse, by its very definition: it shapes where we are. It should also aspire to be lasting, though! There are far too many one-hit-wonder architects, whose work looks very poor in hindsight.
Even in architecture the rankings are dubious. Marcio Kogan's Paraty House has proved more influential this year than any of Zaha's works!
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