Modern Architecture Architecture is the foundation for how we live and shows expression of how we think. It returns our moulding of the world in order to inhabit it and the geometry of what we build is far from neutral. I chose to explore and research Longford Cinema which is located in the Greater Manchester suburb of Stretford. This astonishing building lies on the junction of Chester Road and Edge Lane, opposite Streford Mall. Designed by the architect Henry Elder. Longford Cinema is an astonishing…

Zaha M. Hadid "Gravity-defying", "fragmentary" and "revolutionary" are a few of the words used to describe Zaha Hadid's architectural designs. The Iraqi-born, London-based architect has stirred up continual controversy with her designs that defy a label in the Modern vs. Post-Modern architectural debate. In the past 15 years, she has gone from unknown student to "architecture's new diva" as the title of the January 1996 Architectural DigestUs profile suggested. Her work has been accepted as a…

Rem Koolhaas, Daniel Liebeskind, Frank Gehry and Zaha Hadid. Modern day ‘starchitects’ who - through their practice of deconstructivist architecture - have heavily influenced the overall approach to today’s architecture. But what exactly is deconstructivist architecture? Is it a derivative of postmodernist principles, or something of its own entirety? Through the analysis of particular modern day architects and their works, deconstructivism ascertains its emergence as a separate architectural form…

Making the Colonization of Mars A Near Reality Within the next few decades, humans will be found on another planet besides Earth. Nowadays, life on Earth is becoming so overpopulated that change needs to desperately occur. Not only that, but also there is the possibility that the sun will explode, an ice age will occur, or an asteroid will strike. There seem to be only two solutions to these problems: die off or go somewhere else. But where is there to go other than Earth? That answer is quite…

Anderson: I feel that whatever society does will never be enough. People will never be happy, they always will have a greed for more and more. So the perfect utopia will never be a reality. I think this discussion has helped us to think about what we need to change, to even have a hope of a good future. The last thing we would want is for society to end up completely like the dystopian books the three of you wrote. Second Annual Summit on the Future (Just as Atwood, Huxley, Callenbach, Frankl…

Contemporary Bisual Artist The artist Zaha Mohammad Hadid is a very successful and one of the most famous contemporary female architects in the world. As an architect, the usual mediums that she used for building are such as Glass, Aluminum, Stainless Steel, GRG (glass reinforced gypsum), and Terrazzo (“Galaxy Soho,” 2012). Zaha Hadid’s style is organic, contemporary and innovative. She founded an international architecture and design called Zaha Hadid Architects. Their studio is located in 10 Bowling…

Modern architecture was produced during a period of transformation broadly categorized as modernity. Modernity should not be equipped with the social, political, economic, and technological transformation which began in the seventeenth century and continued well into the twentieth century. Rather, it must be understood at the attitudes towards whose changes. Modernity has been variously described as: a slow transformation and re-evaluation of our relationship with the past; a complete break from…

more specifically his description of a fictional, highly romanticized society named Utopia. In Utopia, More explored not only a different, but also idealized, vision of society in which households are more stable, people have equal standards of living and opportunities, and men and women are on more equal footings than in the English counterpart of More’s time. By comparing those features of Utopia with the reality of English society in the 16th century, it is obvious that More wrote more than a fantasy…

Architecture. My journey is hopefully about to start right here. As a young girl I have constantly been attracted to those tiny details that everybody seems to neglect, I had an interest to look further into things. You could say I viewed things from various angles and tried seeing through them. Almost as if trying to translate their meaning. Quite obviously at such a delicately minded age I was not sure what this interest I had really meant. However, as my mind widened and I was able to produce…

Zaha Hadid - Architect with Curves as Strong as Steel Architecture is among the few careers that are usually considered male dominated sectors. This is because there are very few if any, ladies that have taken the trouble to dare venturing into this well rewarding but involving discipline. Zaha Hadid is the pioneer woman architect who rose to challenge the chauvinistic attitude regarding the gender affiliation to certain careers. The Iraqi-Briton lady, born in Baghdad in 1950 was until her death…