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define the building according to its functional requirements and materials to be used. Clean and simplified forms were preferred and all unnecessary details were banished. An example of modern architecture can be explained and seen by Zaha Hadid’s Vitra Fire Station built in 1990. Constructed as a closure at the end of a

deconstructive style has stretched the boundaries of non-traditional building materials, space, movement, and elevated architecture into a unique art form. The three buildings that I chose were the Rouse Company headquarters, built in the 1969 Columbia, MD, Vitra Design Museum 1987 - 1989, Weil am Rhein, Germany, and Weisman Art Museum completed in 1993, University of Minnesota, Minnesota. These building show an evolution in Gehry’s architectural style. The buildings move from the spare organic Prairie style

Incontinent Object, Trojan Horse, Homunculism and Gigantism, Solidity, Mass, Stereotomy, Distortion and Disproportion. THESIS: The architect Zaha Hadid has produced a number of works that fit into the Trojan Horse typology of horror which includes the Vitra Fire station in Weil am Rhein, the MAXXI museum in Rome and the 1st floor interior design she did for the Hotel Puerta America. THINKING OF USING THIS WHOLE PARAGRAPH FOR THE CONCLUSION: Zaha Hadid’s three projects in the aforementioned have various

is going on within. This paper intends to discuss the Trojan Horse typology of horror through the works of the architect Zaha Hadid who has produced a number of projects that fit into the Trojan Horse typology of horror. Projects which include the Vitra Fire station in Weil am Rhein, the MAXXI museum in Rome and the 1st floor interior design she did for the Hotel Puerta America in Madrid, Spain illustrate the Trojan Horse typology because they have unpredictable interior spaces which subjects the

conventional architecture that is being used today. Fortunately for her she has been able to showcase some of these ideas as can be seen in her first built project which is the Vitra Fire Station in Weil am Rhein, Germany. The project began as a commission to build a fire station in the northeast section of the vast Vitra furniture factory complex as well as design boundary walls, a bicycle shed and other small elements. In this relatively small structure she used unusual shapes and angles that architectural

Does one ever question what opposition to cultural trends can lead someone? What if they were to question they type of success that could erupt from dislocating and distorting one’s work into a brand unique to no one but yourself? Pablo Picasso and Zaha Hadid were two of the most successful artists within the modernist movement. Both Picasso and Hadid laid the foundation for their success with a strong educational background. Each artist understood their sheer talent and works would not contribute

became a laughingstock. 2000s to Present Day Current furniture designers are trying to strike the perfect balance of privacy, while still encouraging sociability. Many offices are rethinking the office cube, and modern designers such as Knoll and Vitra offer office furniture that offer flexibility, movability, and balance by featuring low dividers and semi-enclosed pods. New concepts are becoming more flexible and forgiving in their design, easily adapting to the rapidly changing work

Due to an unfortunate dying genre in the humanities; as a result of the contemporary economic tract housing, architecture has taken a backburner in the world of art over the last couple of decades. However, fragments of the beauty created many years ago still exists. Frank Lloyd Wright and Zaha Hadid, though different in their architectural visions both contributed and continue to contribute to the art of architecture today, surpassing their existence here on earth. While gender differences are evident

Does an architect’s ego get in the way of sensible design? Does it? Does an architect have an ego? Well what is ego for that matter? “Ego: A person’s sense of self-esteem or self-importance” (oxford Dictionary) this is a very tame definition, most people will agree when saying that the definition of ego is in fact the arrogant part of you that in some ways makes you think you are superior or the less cynical of us would like to say an ego is the autopilot of the mind, it’s the thing that one does

Shiro Kuramata (1934-91) was a Japanese designer best known for his furniture and interior design, which gave the modern culture a creative voice. Many will identify with the chair he designed for the Vitra Design Museum in 1987 titled, How High the Moon (fig 1). The piece was inspired by an old jazz song and is part of the permanent collection at New York’s Museum of Modern Art. It is designed as a spacious armchair with woven threads of expanded metal; the piece weighs little more than a leaf,