Current Architecture
Function Follows Form
Hadid’s Spittelauer Arcade Housing. In the most famous quotation of Modernism (from Le Corbusier’s manifesto ‘Towards a New Architecture, 1923) the art of architecture is defined as ‘the masterly, correct and magnificent play of masses brought together in light’.
Architecture A la Carte
Silken Hotel Puerta America, Madrid. During the heydays of Post Modernism (1975-85) architects strived for including the specific taste of their client in building design in order to make the users more familiar with the place from the very start.
Wicker Work
A pavilion by Toyo Ito in Bruges, Belgium. An ever more important issue in current architecture has become baiting daylight with the more manifest materials of which buildings normally are constructed.
