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22 Zaha Hadid – Vitra Fire
Station.(Christian Richters)
overlopping planes in an attempt to express
the drama of its function. While this seems to have caused some problems for
its originally intended users, it raises the whole question of the use of
architecture as a means of functional or historical critique. A more explicit
example of this kind of challenge to intended uses can be found in Peter
Eisenman’s early work in domestic architecture from the 1970s. The most famous
of these is probably the House VI or Frank House, built in Connecticut in 1973
and much written about since. The house is an extreme of architecture as an
autonomous language, with its own system of compositional devices based on
line, plane and volume. Like the architect’s other designs of this period, the
form is generated through a strategy of transformation, by subjecting an
initially simple volume to a series of distortions, rotations and omissions.
The most dramatic effect of this geometric discipline is the slot that appeared
in the middle of the master bedroom, forcing the clients to sleep in separate
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