These slides describes about 5 famous architects and their works. The architects includes - Zaha Hadid, Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Charles Correa, Walter Gropius

1. LE – CORBUSIER
- “A house is a machine for living in.”
• Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (6 October
1887 – 27 August 1965), known as Le
Corbusier was a Swiss-French architect,
designer, painter, urban planner,
writer, and one of the pioneers of what
is now regarded as modern
architecture.
• A founding member of the Congrès
International d'Architecture Moderne
(CIAM).
• It was in L’Esprit Nouveau that Le
Corbusier first developed his famous
“five points of architecture,” which can
be briefly summarized as follows:
1. Raise the building on “pilotis,”
freeing the walls of their structural
function.
2. With the walls freed of their
structural role, a free plan should
be employed.
3. Similarly, the facade should be
designed freely.
4. The horizontal ribbon window,
enabled by the free facade, should
be used to light rooms evenly.
5. The roof should be flat and host a
roof garden, replacing the ground
space that is occupied by the
building
Le Corbusier's
student project,
the Villa Fallet, a
chalet in La
Chaux-de-Fonds,
Switzerland
(1905)
The "Maison Blanche",
built for Le Corbusier's
parents in La Chaux-
de-Fonds (1912)
The Villa
Favre-Jacot
in Le Locle,
Switzerland
(1912)
The Anatole
Schwob House
in La-Chaux-de-
Fonds (1916–
1918)
The Villa La
Roche-
Jeanneret
(now Fondati
on Le
Corbusier) in
Paris (1923)
Citrohan
Haus in
Weissenhof,
Stuttgart,
Germany
(1927)
The Villa
Savoye in
Poissy
(1928–1931)
Low-cost
housing units
built by Le
Corbusier in
the Cité
Frugès in
Pessac (1926)
Building of
the
Tsentrosoyuz,
headquarters
of Soviet
trade unions,
Moscow
(1928–34)
The
Immeuble
Clarté in
Geneva
(1930–1932)
Unité
d'Habitation,
Marseille
(1947–1952)
The headquarters
of the United
Nations designed
by Le Corbusier,
Oscar Niemeyer
and Wallace K.
Harrison (1947–
1952)
The chapel of
Notre-Dame-
du-Haut in
Ronchamp
(1950–1955)
The convent of
Sainte Marie
de La Tourette
near Lyon
(1953–1960)
Church of Saint-
Pierre, Firminy
(1960–2006)
The High Court of
Justice, Chandigarh
(1951–1956)
Secretariat Building,
Chandigarh (1952–
Palace of Assembly
(Chandigarh) (1952–
The National Museum of
Western Art in Tokyo
(1954–1959)
Carpenter Center for the Visual
Arts in Cambridge, Massachusetts
(1960–1963)
The Centre Le Corbusier in
Zürich (1962–1967)
Open Hand Monument in
Chandigarh, India

2. CHARLES CORREA
• Charles Mark Correa (1 September 1930 – 16 June
2015) was an Indian architect and urban planner.
Credited with the creation of modern architecture in
post-Independent India, he was celebrated for his
sensitivity to the needs of the urban poor and for his
use of traditional methods and materials.
• Charles Correa designed almost 100 buildings in India,
from low-income housing to luxury condos. He
rejected the glass-and-steel approach of some post-
modernist buildings, and focused on designs deeply
rooted in local cultures, all the while providing
modern structural solutions under his creative
designs. His style was also focused on reintroducing
outdoor spaces and terraces.
Gandhi Smarak Sangrahalay
at Sabarmati Ashram,
Ahmedabad
1958–1963
Tube House, Ahmedabad
1961-1962
Demolished
Kanchanjunga apartments,
Mumbai
1961-1966
Kala Academy, Goa
1970
National Crafts Museum,
New Delhi
1975 - 1990
R&D facility of Mahindra
& Mahindra Ltd, Chennai
Vidhan Bhawan, Madya
Pradesh
1980 - 1997
Bharat Bhawan, Bhopal
1982
Jawahar Kala Kendra, Jaipur
1986 - 1992
Jeevan Bharati
Life Insurance Corporation
of India, New Delhi
1986
British Council Delhi
Headquarters, Delhi
1987–1992
Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for
Advanced Scientific
Research, Bangalore
1989
Parumala Church in
Parumala, Kerala
2000
McGovern Institute for
Brain Research, MIT,
Boston, US
2000 - 2005
Champalimaud Centre for
the Unknown, Lisbon,
Portugal
2007 - 2010
Ismaili Centre, Toronto
2010 - 2014
- “Certainly architecture is concerned with much more than just its
physical attributes. It is a many-layered thing. Beneath and beyond the
strata of function and structure, materials and texture, lie the deepest and
most compulsive layers of all ”

3. ZAHA HADID
- “I don't think that architecture is only about shelter, is only about a very simple enclosure. It should be able to
excite you, to calm you, to make you think..”
• Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid (31 October
1950 – 31 March 2016) was a British Iraqi
architect, artist and designer, recognized as a
major figure in architecture of the late 20th and
early 21st centuries. Born in Baghdad, Iraq,
Hadid studied mathematics as an
undergraduate and then enrolled at the
Architectural Association School of Architecture
in 1972. In search of an alternative system to
traditional architectural drawing, and
influenced by Suprematism and the Russian
avant-garde, Hadid adopted painting as a
design tool and abstraction as an investigative
principle to "reinvestigate the aborted and
untested experiments of Modernism [...] to
unveil new fields of building."
• She was described by The Guardian as the
"Queen of the curve", who "liberated
architectural geometry, giving it a whole new
expressive identity“.
• Hadid was the first woman to receive the
Pritzker Architecture Prize, in 2004
Vitra Fire Station in
Weil am Rhein,
Germany (1991–93)
Bergisel Ski Jump,
Innsbruck, Austria
(1999–2002)
Contemporary Arts
Center, Cincinnati,
Ohio (1997–2003)
Administration
building of BMW
Factory in Leipzig,
Germany (2001–2005)
Phaeno Science
Center, Wolfsburg,
Germany (2005)
Extension of
Ordrupgaard Museum,
Copenhagen, Denmark
(2001–2005)
High speed train
station, Afragola,
Naples, Italy
Bridge Pavilion in
Zaragoza, Spain
(2005–2008)
MAXXI Interior,
Rome, Italy (1998–
2010)
Guangzhou Opera
House, Guangzhou,
China (2003–2010)
Riverside Museum,
Glasgow, Scotland
(2004–2011)
London Aquatics Centre,
built for the 2012
Summer Olympics,
London (2005–2012)
Broad Art Museum in East
Lansing, Michigan, US
(2007–2012)
Galaxy SOHO in
Beijing, China (2008–
2012)
Heydar Aliyev Center
in Baku, Azerbaijan
(2007–2013)
Vienna University of Economics
and Business Library and Learning
Center, Vienna, Austria (2013)
Dongdaemun Design
Plaza, Seoul, Korea
(2007–2013)
Jockey Club Innovation Tower
at the Hong Kong Polytechnic
University (2007–2014)
Nanjing
International
Youth
Cultural
Centre, 2015
Port Authority
Building
(Havenhuis) in
Antwerp,
Belgium
(2016)
Beijing
Daxing
Airport in
Beijing
(2019)
Hadid's fluid
interior of the
Silken Puerta
America in
Madrid
Maggie's
Centre,
Kirkcaldy,
Scotland
Evelyn Grace
Academy,
London

4. FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT
- “The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization..”
• Frank Lloyd Wright (June 8, 1867 – April 9,
1959) was an American architect, designer,
writer, and educator. He designed more than
1,000 structures over a creative period of 70
years. Wright believed in designing in harmony
with humanity and the environment, a
philosophy he called organic architecture.
• Wright rarely credited any influences on his
designs, but most architects, historians and
scholars agree he had five major influences:
1. Louis Sullivan, whom he considered to be his
Lieber Meister (dear master)
2. Nature, particularly shapes/forms and
colors/patterns of plant life
3. Music (his favorite composer was Ludwig van
Beethoven)
4. Japanese art, prints and buildings
5. Froebel Gifts
Wright's home in Oak
Park, Illinois (1889)
The Walter Gale
House, Oak Park,
Illinois (1893)
William H. Winslow
House in River Forest,
Illinois (1893)
Nathan G. Moore
House, Oak Park,
Illinois (1895)
Wright's studio
viewed from Chicago
Avenue (1898)
Arthur Heurtley
House, Oak Park,
Illinois (1902)
Hillside Home School,
Taliesin, Spring
Green, Wisconsin
(1902)
Darwin D. Martin
House, Buffalo, New
York (1904)
Charles Weltzheimer
Residence, Oberlin,
Ohio (1948)
Solomon R.
Guggenheim
Museum, New York
City (1959)
Fallingwater, Mill
Run, Pennsylvania
(1937)
Price Tower in
Bartlesville,
Oklahoma (1956)
Wright's Johnson
Wax headquarters
complex, Racine,
Wisconsin (1939)
Wright-designed
window in Robie
House, Chicago
(1906)
Imperial Hotel, Tokyo
(1923)
The Robie House on
the University of
Chicago campus (1909)
Frank W. Thomas
House, Oak Park,
Illinois (1901)
Taliesin West,
Scottsdale, Arizona
(1937)
Gammage Auditorium,
Arizona State University,
Tempe, Arizona (1964)
Beth Sholom
Synagogue, Wright's
only synagogue
design, Elkins Park,
Pennsylvania (1954)
UNITY TEMPLE, OAK
PARK, ILLINOIS,1904

5. WALTER GROPIUS
- “Limitation makes the creative mind inventive..”
• Walter Adolph Georg Gropius (18 May 1883 – 5
July 1969) was a German architect and founder
of the Bauhaus School, who, along with Alvar
Aalto, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier
and Frank Lloyd Wright, is widely regarded as
one of the pioneering masters of modernist
architecture. He is a founder of Bauhaus in
Weimar (1919). Gropius was also a leading
architect of the International Style.
• In principle, the Bauhaus represented an
opportunity to extend beauty and quality to
every home through well designed industrially
produced objects. The Bauhaus program was
experimental and the emphasis was
theoretical.
Bauhaus Dessau
building, built 1925–
26
Gropius House (1938)
in Lincoln,
Massachusetts
Aluminum City
Terrace, Pennsylvania
(1944)
The Fagus Factory,
Alfeld an der Leine,
Germany
1910–11
Impington Village
College, Cambridge,
England
1936
66 Old Church
Street, Chelsea,
London, England
1936
Waldenmark, Wrightstown
Township, Pennsylvania
(with Marcel Breuer)
1939
The Alan I W Frank House,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
(with Marcel Breuer)
1939 - 40
Michael Reese Hospital,
Chicago, Illinois, USA
1945 - 59
Harvard Graduate Center,
Cambridge, Massachusetts,
USA
1949 - 50
University of Baghdad,
Baghdad, Iraq
1957 - 60
John F. Kennedy Federal
Office Building, Boston,
Massachusetts, USA
1963 - 66
Pan Am Building (now the
Metlife Building), New York
1958 - 63
Interbau Apartment blocks,
Hansaviertel (Walter-Gropius-
Haus) Berlin, Germany
1957
Temple Oheb Shalom
(Baltimore, Maryland)
1960
Wayland High
School, Wayland,
Massachusetts, USA
1961
Embassy of the
United States,
Athens, Greece
1959 - 61
Tower East, Shaker
Heights, Ohio, was
Gropius's last major
project.
1967 - 69
Huntington Museum of Art,
Huntington, West Virginia,
USA
1968 - 70
Porto Carras, at Chalkidiki,
Greece
1973 - 80
Törten housing estate
in Dessau
1926 - 28