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Select an architect from your text, from class discussions, or from some other source. He/She may be a historic or contemporary architect that you want to learn more about.Use drawings/diagrams/photographs (or any combination) to illustrate the architect's most significant works, and written words (outline form is acceptable) to describe the architect's era, philosophy,influences, etc. This project may be presented creatively (collage, figure/ground organization, photoshop, etc.), but remember the single page,8 1/2" x 11" paper format.Be prepared to discuss your architect in class.The purpose of this assignment is to encourage research and to establish hierarchies.....there is only so much information that can fit on one page, so you have to choose the most important data.


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Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid, was an Iraqi-born British architect. She was the first woman to receive the Pritzker Architecture Prize, in 2004. She received the UK's most prestigious architectural award, the Stirling Prize, in 2010 and 2011. In 2012, she was made a Dame by Elizabeth II for services to architecture, and in 2015 she became the first woman to be awarded the Royal Gold Medal from the Royal Institute of British Architects. At the end of the 1990s, her career began to move more quickly, as she won commissions for two museums and a large industrial building. She competed against Rem Koolhaas and other well-known architects for the design of the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, Ohio (1997-2000). and won, and became the first woman to design an art museum in the United States. It was not an enormous museum (8500 square meters) and her design did not have the flamboyance of the Guggenheim Bilbao of Frank Gehry, built at the same time, but it showed her ability to use architectural forms to create interior drama, including its central element, a thirty-meter long black stairway that passes between massive curving and angular concrete walls. Musée Guggenheim au petit matin In 2004 she was awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize, the most prestigious award in architecture, though she had only completed four buildings, including the VItra Fire Station, the Ski Lift in Innsbruck Austria, and the Contemporary Art Center in CIncinnati. In making the announcement, Thomas Pritzker, the head of the jury, announced: "Although her body of work is relatively small, she has achieved great acclaim and her energy and ideas show even greater promise for the future. Hadid's architectural language has been described by some as "famously extravagant" with many of her projects sponsored by "dictator states". Rowan Moore described Hadid's Heydar Aliyev Center as "not so different from the colossal cultural palaces long beloved of Soviet and similar regimes". Architect Sean Griffiths characterised Hadid's work as "an empty vessel that sucks in whatever ideology might be in proximity to it". Art historian Maike Aden criticises in particular the foreclosure of Zaha Hadid's architecture of the MAXXI in Rome towards the public and the urban life that undermines even the most impressive program to open the museum.
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