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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 V
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21 Zaha Hadid – Vitra Fire
Station.(Christian Richters)
under construction. Daniel Libeskind had
here designed a memorial, rather than a functioning museum in the traditional
sense, and it is unclear whether the installation of exhibits will add to or
detract from its effect. The powerful sense of loss and displacement which the
building’s empty spaces already invoke is a reminder that architecture’s
uniqueness can never be captured in a programme of requirements.
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Zaha Hadid – Vitra Fire Station (model), Weil-am-Rhein, Germany, 1988-94. (Zaha
Hadid)
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19 Zaha Hadid – Vitra Fire Station (model),
Weil-am-Rhein, Germany, 1988-94. (Zaha Hadid)
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page082from Building Ideas
18 E.E. Voillet-le-Duc – Detail of Gothic
vaulting from Dictionaire Raissonée, 1854-68
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