Architecture,Design

Coop Himmelb(l)au
High School for the
Visual and Performing Arts

A truncated, asymmetrical cone collects and enhances the energies which revolve in and around it.Coop Himmelb(l)au

By breaking up the student body into four so-called "academies," each specializing in one of the arts, a closer and more personal environment between teachers and students is created. Each academy occupies a distinct building which houses the art studios next to general classrooms, administration spaces and teachers workrooms.

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Santiago Calatrava
Tenerife Concert Hall
Santa Cruz de Tenerife,
Canary Islands, Spain

The auditorium is located on the waterfront in the Los Llanos are of Santa Cruz, the capital of Tenerife. Situated between the Marine Park and the edge of the port, the auditorium connects the city to the ocean and creates a significant urban landmark.

The all-concrete building is characterized by the dramatic sweep of its roof. Rising off the base like a crashing wave, the roof soars to a height of 58 meters over the main auditorium before curving downward and narrowing to a point. The building's plinth forms a public plaza covering the site and allows for changes in grade between the different levels of the adjacent roads.

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Foreign Office Architects

_{^{There are four main elements which constitute the base of Alejandro Zaera Polo and Farshid Moussavi's projects. These are as follows:

Function (Information), Matter (Behavior), Technique (Modalities), and Organization (Regimen).

Describing these four elements, the article adds that the fundamental approach of Zaera Polo and Moussavi is onetending to transform the ground into 'an active surface, a built-up layout plan from which architectural elements emerge as improbable and fluctuating forms. 'In the Yokohama terminal, the building itself becomes a surface of differing intensities and controlling traffic flows between the city and port, the inhabitants and the ship passengers. The surface becomes' pleated' to channel traffic lanes, while also playing its structural role. The ground swells up into an envelope to assert its operational role, enabling imperceptable movement between differing statuses that are both dynamic and static.}}
Iranian Architecture

Yokohama International Port Terminal

_{^{Farshid Moussavi
Masters in Architecture ( MARCHII) , The Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, USA Dipl. Architecture Degree University College London University, The Bartlett School of Architecture, UK Bsc. Architecture, Dundee University, United Kingdom}}

_{^{Professional Record
1992 Established Foreign Office Architects, London.
1991- 1993 Office for Metropolitan Architecture, Rotterdam, Holland
1988 Renzo Piano Building Workshop, Genoa, Italy}}

_{^{Teaching
2002   Professorship at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria
2002   Visiting Critic University of California Los Angeles, USA
2001   Visiting Critic Columbia University, USA
1993- 2000 Unit Master Architectural Association School of Architecture, London, UK.
1999   Visiting Critic Princeton University, USA
1998   Visiting Critic Columbia University, USA
1997   Visiting Critic, Berlage Institute of Architecture, Amsterdam,
Holland
1993- 1995 Design Professor at the Hoger Architectuur Instituut Sint-Lucas, Gent, Belgium.}}

_{^{Alejandro Zaera Polo
Master in Architecture with Distinction (MARCH II), Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, USA Dipl. Architecture Degree (Hons), E.T.S. of Architecture in Madrid, Spain}}

_{^{Professional Record
1992 Established Foreign Office Architects, London.
1991-1992 Office for Metropolitan Architecture, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.}}

_{^{Teaching
2002 -    Dean of the Berlage Institute, The Netherlands
2002   Visiting Critic University of California Los Angeles, USA
2001   Visiting Critic Columbia University, USA
1993- 2000 Unit Master Architectural Association School of Architecture, London, UK
1999   Visiting Critic Princeton University, USA
1998   Visiting Critic Columbia University, USA
1997-present Visiting Critic, Berlage Institute of Architecture, Amsterdam, Holland 1992-1995 Associate Professor of Design at the E.T.S. of Architecture in Madrid, Spain}.}

The Music Box

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Parse or Persepolis

This is my home country architecture.

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Zaha Hadid� Biography in Brief

     Born in Baghdad, Iraq in 1950, Zaha Hadid studied architecture at the Architectural Association in London from 1972 and was awarded the Diploma Prize in 1977. She then became a partner of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, taught at the AA with OMA collaborators Rem Koolhaas and Elia Zenghelis, and later led her own studio at the AA until 1987.

     More recently, she held the Kenzo Tange Chair at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University; the Sullivan Chair at the University of Illinois, School of Architecture in Chicago; and has held guest professorships at the Hochschule f�r Bildende K�nste in Hamburg, the Knolton School of Architecture, Ohio and the Masters Studio at Columbia University, New York. In addition, she was made an Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Fellow of the American Institute of Architecture and a Commander of the British Empire, 2002. She is currently Professor at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, Austria and is the Eero Saarinen Visiting Professor of Architectural Design for the Spring Semester 2004 at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.

     Hadid has become known as an architect who consistently pushes the boundaries of architecture and urban design. Her work experiments with new spatial concepts intensifying existing urban landscapes in the pursuit of a visionary aesthetic that encompasses all fields of design, ranging from urban scale through to products, interiors and furniture. Best known for her seminal built works, her central concerns involve a simultaneous engagement in practice, teaching and research.

Zaha Hadid

Pritzker Architecture Prize

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