London Aquatics Centre

Lauren Ostrem – Art and Beauty Philosophy

 The Style: Parametricism
Deriving from Modern & Post-Modern Styles

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 London Aquatics Centre
Concept: Inspired by Moving Water

o Built in 2004.
o 628 Panes of Glass.
o Can seat 2,800 normally, with an extra 1,000 for large
events.
o Due to its massive glass walls, there is plenty of natural
sunlight.
o After the Olympic games of 2012, it has since been
turned into a place of sport and leisure for the
community.

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World Renowned
Zaha Hadid
Born in Baghdad, Iraq 1950.
American University of Beirut – Mathematics 1972.
Architects Association – London 1977.
Taught at: Architectural Association School, Colombia, Harvard,
Yale, and the University of Applied Arts in Vienna.
Founded Zaha Hadid Architects – 1979

Award Winning

Was awarded Pritzker Architecture Prize (Nobel Prize of

Architecture)
Forbes List of the ‘World’s Most Powerful Women’.
Stirling Prize 2011
Named a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire
by the Queen.
Royal Gold Medal.

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 Connecting to Philosophers
IS IT ART, OR IS IT NOT ART?

Plato Since the architecture is based off Dickie The London Aquatics Center won
computer generation and algorithms, Hadid the Pritzker Architecture
it would not be imitation of a physical Prize.
object.

Kant Would say that this is just a Marx Was and is a tourist attraction.
beautiful building – nothing Open as a place of sport and
sublime. leisure for the community.

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