Zaha Hadid

Her buildings are distinctively neofuturistic, characterised by the "powerful,

curving forms of her elongated structures" with "multiple perspective points and
fragmented geometry to evoke the chaos of modern life". She is currently professor at
the University of Applied Arts Vienna in Austria.
Zaha has undertaken some high-profile interior work, including the Mind Zone at
the Millennium Dome in London as well as creating fluid furniture installations within the
Georgian surroundings of Home House private members club in Marylebone, and the
Z.CAR hydrogen-powered, three-wheeled automobile. In 2009 she worked with the
clothing brand Lacoste, to create a new, high fashion, and advanced boot. In the same
year, she also collaborated with the brassware manufacturer Triflow Concepts to
produce two new designs in her signature parametric architectural style.
In 2007 Zaha Hadid designed the Moon System Sofa for leading Italian furniture
manufacturer B&B Italia.
Her architectural design firm, Zaha Hadid Architects, employs more than 350 people,
and is headquartered in a Victorian former school building in Clerkenwell, London.
Projects
Vitra Fire Station (1994), Weil am Rhein, Germany
Bergisel Ski Jump (2002), Innsbruck, Austria
Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art (2003), Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Hotel Puerta America (20032005), Madrid, Spain
BMW Central Building (2005), Leipzig, Germany

Norman Foster

He is one of Britain's most prolific architects of his generation. In 1999 he was

awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize, often referred to as the Nobel Prize of
architecture. In 2009 Foster was awarded the Prince of Asturias Award in the Arts
category. In 1994 he received the AIA Gold Medal.
Sir Norman Foster is an award-winning and prolific British architect known for
sleek, modern designs of steel and glass. His first building to receive international
acclaim was the Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts in Norwich, England. At the turn of
the 21st century, he began working on world landmarks, including rebuilding the
Reichstag in Berlin after the reunification of Germany.

19691971, Fred. Olsen Lines terminal, London Docklands, UK

19701971, IBM Pilot Head Office, Cosham, Portsmouth, UK
19711975, Willis Faber and Dumas Headquarters, Ipswich, UK
1973-1977, Beanhill Housing Estate, Milton Keynes, UK[1]
19741978, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts at the University of East Anglia, Norwich,
UK

Daniel Burnham
Burnham took a leading role in the creation of master plans for the development of a
number of cities, including Chicago, Manila and downtown Washington, D.C. He also
designed several famous buildings, including the Flatiron Building of triangular shape in
New York City, Union Station in Washington D.C., the Continental Trust Company
Building tower skyscraper in Baltimore (now One South Calvert Building), and a number
of notable skyscrapers in Chicago.
Philippines
Burnham's Plan for Manila
Manila
Baguio
Provincial Capitol Building in Bacolod, Negros Occidental

Frank Gehry
A number of his buildings, including his private residence, have become worldrenowned tourist attractions. His works are cited as being among the most important
works of contemporary architecture in the 2010 World Architecture Survey, which led
Vanity Fair to label him as "the most important architect of our age".

Gehry's best-known works include the titanium-clad Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao,

Spain; Walt Disney Concert Hall in downtown Los Angeles; Louis Vuitton Foundation in
Paris, France; MIT Ray and Maria Stata Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts; The
Vontz Center for Molecular Studies on the University of Cincinnati campus; Experience
Music Project in Seattle; New World Center in Miami Beach; Weisman Art Museum in
Minneapolis; Dancing House in Prague; the Vitra Design Museum and the museum
MARTa Herford in Germany; the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto; the Cinmathque
franaise in Paris; and 8 Spruce Street in New York City. But it was his private residence
in Santa Monica, California, that jump-started his career, lifting it from the status of
"paper architecture"a phenomenon that many famous architects have experienced in
their formative decades through experimentation almost exclusively on paper before
receiving their first major commission in later years. Gehry is also the designer of the
future National Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial.
Much of Gehry's work falls within the style of Deconstructivism, which is often
referred to as post-structuralist in nature for its ability to go beyond current modalities of
structural definition. This can be seen in Gehry's house in Santa Monica. In architecture,
its application tends to depart from modernism in its inherent criticism of culturally
inherited givens such as societal goals and functional necessity. Because of this, unlike
early modernist structures, Deconstructivist structures are not required to reflect specific
social or universal ideas, such as speed or universality of form, and they do not reflect a
belief that form follows function. Gehry's own Santa Monica residence is a commonly
cited example of deconstructivist architecture, as it was so drastically divorced from its
original context, and in such a manner as to subvert its original spatial intention.
Gehry is sometimes associated with what is known as the "Los Angeles School" or the
"Santa Monica School" of architecture. The appropriateness of this designation and the
existence of such a school, however, remains controversial due to the lack of a unifying
philosophy or theory. This designation stems from the Los Angeles area's producing a
group of the most influential postmodern architects, including such notable Gehry
contemporaries as Eric Owen Moss and Pritzker Prize-winner Thom Mayne of
Morphosis, as well as the famous schools of architecture at the Southern California
Institute of Architecture (co-founded by Mayne), UCLA, and USC where Gehry is a
member of the Board of Directors.
Gehrys style at times seems unfinished or even crude, but his work is consistent with
the California "funk" art movement in the 1960s and early 1970s, which featured the use
of inexpensive found objects and non-traditional media such as clay to make serious
art[citation needed]. Gehry has been called "the apostle of chain-link fencing and
corrugated metal siding". However, a retrospective exhibit at New York's Whitney
Museum in 1988 revealed that he is also a sophisticated classical artist, who knows
European art history and contemporary sculpture and painting

Richard Meir
Meier worked for Skidmore, Owings and Merrill briefly in 1959, and then for Marcel
Breuer for three years, prior to starting his own practice in New York in 1963. In 1972,
he was identified as one of The New York Five. Early in his career, Meier worked with
artists such as painter Frank Stella and favored structure that were white and geometric.
Though Meier was an acclaimed architect for many years, his design of the Getty
Center, a massive museum complex in Los Angeles, California, which opened in 1997,
catapulted his popularity into the mainstream. Some of his other notable commissions
include museums such as the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia (1983), Barcelona
Museum of Contemporary Art in Spain (1995), and the Paley Center for Media in
Beverly Hills, California (1996); city halls in The Hague, The Netherlands (1995) and
San Jose City Hall (2007); and commercial buildings including the reconstruction of City
Tower in Prague, Czech Republic (2008).Today, Richard Meier & Partners Architects

has offices in New York and Los Angeles with current projects ranging from China and
Tel Aviv to Paris and Hamburg.Much of Meier's work builds on the work of architects of
the early to mid-20th century, especially that of Le Corbusier and, in particular, Le
Corbusier's early phase. Meier has built more using Corbusier's ideas than anyone,
including Le Corbusier himself[citation needed]. Meier expanded many ideas evident in
Le Corbusier's work, particularly the Villa Savoye and the Swiss Pavilion.
His work also reflects the influences of other designers such as Mies Van der Rohe and,
in some instances, Frank Lloyd Wright and Luis Barragn (without the colour)[citation
needed]. White has been used in many architectural landmark buildings throughout
history, including cathedrals and the white-washed villages of the Mediterranean region,
in Spain, southern Italy and Greece.
The Mayor of Rome Gianni Alemanno included in his campaign platform a promise to
tear down the big travertine wall of Meier's Ara Pacis.[citation needed] Mayor Alemmano
has since changed his stance on the building and has agreed with Meier to
modifications including drastically reducing the height of the wall between an open-air
space outside the museum and a busy road along the Tiber river. The city plans to build
a wide pedestrian area along the river and run the road underneath it. "It's an
improvement," says Meier, adding that "the reason that wall was there has to do with
traffic and noise. Once that is eliminated, the idea of opening the piazza to the river is a
good one." The mayors office said Alemanno hopes to complete the project before the
end of his term in 2013.
Westbeth Artists Community, New York City, 1970
Condominium of the Olivetti Training Center in Tarrytown, New York, 1971
Meier House, Essex Fells, New Jersey, 1965
Smith House, Darien, Connecticut, 19651967
Douglas House, Harbor Springs, Michigan, 1973