Modern Architecture Assignment Report

"ROLE OF ZAHA HADID IN THE MODERN ARCHITECTURE",
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INTRODUCTION
Most of the iconic architectural work which has been considered to be an existential foothold is
currently at the forefront of most of the cities in the world. Since its self-conscious inception as a
discipline of innovative design in distinction to the tradition-bound building as far as
Renaissance is concerned, architecture has shown greater aspiration to improve day by day. This
implies that the concept of architecture being the aggressive field aiming at achieving human
comfort can be said to be as old as the discipline of architecture (Kurnia 2019). Zaha Hadid
other than being famous worldwide was probably considered to be the most influential architect
of the present times.
Several buildings have come to be used in the identification of specific places are nowadays
refered to as iconic structures of architecture. Today, majority of the human population live in
the change characterized era. The era is also characterized by very high technology as well as
instability. These factors have been found to give rise to the opportunities which allow for the
development of at least every sector in ways which are unprecedented. The stunning design
which has been used in such kinds of the iconic architectural works serves to benefit the society
in which there is emission of energy. Cities in the world as wells as architecture in general have
assumed innovative ways of having their philosophy as well as configuration expressed
considering the changes which are happening in the world today. There have been technological
advances in the past few years in the case of the building structures. This has extended to those
materials which are much privileged in terms of their properties like ease of configuration,
flexibility, elasticity, and rigidity as well as appearance beauty. Such kinds of the facilities have
been found to make majority of the architects to be more creative and innovative in their

activities of design without necessarily fearing the challenges which they may encounter in their
processes of the design.
Consequently, there is new trend in architecture that has since been recognized as the motive to
embrace modernism. It is called Deconstructivism. The concept of the Deconstructivism has led
to objects design as if they are meant for the planet earth. The design has been characterized by
non-geometry, antigravity as well as complexity (Elgohary 2018). The concept of
Deconstructivism became more pronounced around the period of 1988 where it was utilized in
the case of the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), New York. It was at this point that seven of
the architects considered as being contemporary showed their architectural work.
Among the Contemporary architects was Zaha M. Hadid. In this particular exhibition, Zaha M.
Hadid demonstrated architectural work which featured ambiguity and complexity. The early
work of Zaha M. Hadid was characterized by anti-gravity as well as fragmentation which had
been artistic movement in Russia. It was also characterized by suprematism which basically
employed the concept of abstract that employed the concept of pure geometric forms in the
painting forms instead of depicting things as reality portrays them. The concept and techniques
applied by her in the architectural design have formed the basis of modern architecture whose
fruits are celebrated by to date (Prudon 2017).

CHAPATER 2
HADID AND MODERN ARCHITECTURE
Zaha’s architectural woks have attracted media and people and most of them are today used as
the indicators of the strength of the economy of the country. Practically, Hadid superseded her
mentors including El Lissitzky and Malevich by anticipating real buildings in her exploration
graphically. Actually she was the first to boring Suprematism into the spaces which were
considered as being three-dimensional which he effectively placed on the buildable proposition.
Through her, there was spatialization of the Suprematist composition, which was expanded to the
third dimensions. The parts were moved in the formations of abstracts like for the case of the
flow of ice through the entire museum. What graphically appeared as a single object appeared in
the graphical presentation as a field of objects whose movement is enshrined through the
building in existence hence the adaptation was on the circular geometry (Sarrigiannis et al.2018).
There have been elements of hope from the use of computers which have promised to have these
challenges or difficulties alleviated. The truth of the matter is that using natural forms as models
can potentially give rise to structures which are lighter as well as more efficient in regard to the
material use coupled with novelty of style. As a result of the enhanced dialogue between the
architectural and scientific disciplines this encompasses the conic aspect of other improvements
in the weather protection, performance thermally as well as sensory responsiveness. These have
been regarded as the primary factors of study and interesting field for the study in the case of
biomimetic (Alyushin et al.2019). Such kind of the movement was spatial and fluid with the
forms dropping and rising in the entire structure.

In order to make it thematically appropriate for the show under illustrations, the processes of the
installation was also refered as one of the most inspired exercise with the list of attempts being
very long. This was meant to assist in the mediation between the exhibition and the Wright’s
structures. It is important to note that there are very few buildings which can actually fail
retreating into modesty by necessarily standing to the Alps apart from Zaha Hadid lyrical and
dynamic Bergisel Ski Jump in Innsbruck, Austria. This particular structure was completed in the
year 2002 and has boldly confronted the mountains on the surrounding with an equivalent
majesty of architecture. With its location being at the hill top, the structure actually occupies the
sky. The site can actually be described as a silhouette which is free-standing. This implies that air
is Hadid’s element and she constantly engages nature for very comprehensive consolations
(Sebastian and al Qeisi 2018).
Urban areas on the planet as wells as design as a rule have accepted inventive methods of Hadid
for having their way of thinking just as setup communicated considering the progressions which
are going on the planet today. There have been innovative advances in the previous years on
account of the structure. This has stretched out to those materials which are tremendously special
regarding their properties like simplicity of setup, adaptability, versatility, and unbending nature
just as appearance excellence which are expected to be compatible with modern technology as
Zaha suggests. Such sorts of the offices have been found to make dominant part of the planners
to be progressively inventive and imaginative in their exercises of structural design without
fundamentally dreading the difficulties which they may experience in their procedures during the
construction exercise.
It is anyway actualized to make an individual left, quiet and think past." In her announcement,
Hadid included that "Structures ought to significantly affect on the life inside the road and ought

to likewise be able to pull in occupants. Hadid was persuaded by the depiction given by Le
Corbusier on design which expressed that on the utilization of solid, stone and wood,
development of good houses and castles could be accomplished inventiveness at activity. Be that
as it may, for the beneficial thing done to the architects would be worth mentioning. This implies
that there should never be a mistaken concept when reference is made to the modern
architectural work and Zaha topping the list should be embraced as a logical line of thought and
appreciation of the efforts she put in place to change the face of the modern architecture.
THE CONCEPT OF DE-CONSTRUCTIVISM IN ZAHA HADID’S WORK
After modernism and following the rapid technological and scientific developments, great desire
have been developed by architects to present and reflect the exact picture of their work on
buildings. A lot of chaos and uncertainty arose in the mid 90s as identified in works presented by
some architects. First instance of deconstruction was observed in around the year 1917 during
World War I, when an abstract and totally different painting referred to as constructivism was
presented by an artist from Russia by the name Vladimir Tatlin. As per the view of the writer, a
protocol of bringing the war to an end was assigned by Russia at the moment to introduce a
Soviet Union while announcing the end of Tsarist autocracy.

Figure 8: Concept of De-Constructivism in Abu Dhabi
Attempts were made by Russia to recover from damages they encountered. Russia then decided
to launch a vast campaign based on the aim of creating an effective union and setting an
improvised democracy worldwide: revolution in almost all sectors including economy and
science; the radical politics in Russian revolution comprised of the art and architecture to serve
as life reorganizing tools following tsar overthrow. Improvised types of buildings that conforms
the most wanted social organization in the current Communist state were implemented by
constructivist architects.
Many architects around the world have been influenced by this kind of architectural development
in Russia; one being a Zaha Hadid teacher, Rem Koolhaas dealing in Architecture Association in
London. Based on the love of Russian constructivism, he gave this knowledge to his students,
providing them with words of encouragements to copy the properties of architecture by availing
freedom of expression and designing and best teachers were also provided worldwide.

The main aim of de-constructivism was to do away with the logical brought by post modernism
like the historical building imagery. This architecture was in humanism as it involved
fragmentation, extermination and deconstruction. Under the supervision of some great scholars, a
number of architects were invited based on their known style of de-constructivist at MOMA
Exhibition in New York in the year 1998. On their arrival, they came up with the current
architectural movement grounded to liberated and limitless form focusing on reversing the
principles set for modern design. Classification for the architects was on two categories, the one
in which the inspiration by some scholars were from constructivism and others from organic or
concept of modernism The two categories conceived architecture as a sculpture or a creative
image. The other category comprised of the Derridean architects with text philosophical
deconstruction which they latter reflected in their actual work. Realistic and reasonable features
are observed in the first category based on a number of reasons which are discussed in other
sections of this paper.
This architectural style of de-constructivism was observed in the late 70s bearing the features of
mystery, excitement, and comprising of life. Assumptions are made that the London
Architectural Association in which most of the DE constructivist architects obtained their degree
of architecture was as a result of emergence and establishment of de-constructivism. Commonly
known pioneers of the movement include Zaha Hadid whose projects bear the features of
abstraction and fragmentation but the major concept of her project is based on the inner study on
the external inspiration, ideas and language to present the entire world in designing process. The
story on various projects is given by the architecture of Hadid that also provides what is referred
to as the real architecture.