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Subject - Visual Arts Links:

[|Extended Essay Subject Visual Arts Page] A page that has the outline for an extended essay in the visual arts subject. [|Grove Art Database] A database for Art, Artists, Art movements... [|Art Quotes Webpage] A page for quotes by artists and about art [|BrainyQuotes] This has a large collection of quotes by subject - there are many many quotes about art

Images of Zaha Hadid's work:



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Delicious Page: http://delicious.com/valaina

Book Resources in MLA format:  Curtis, William J. R. __Modern Architecture Since 1900__. [London]: Phaidon, 1996. Dietsch, Deborah K. __Architecture for Dummies__. --For dummies. New York: Wiley, 2002. Frampton, Kenneth. __Modern Architecture: A Critical History__. World of art. New York: Oxford University Press, 1980. Hadid, Zaha, and Aaron Betsky. __Zaha Hadid: The Complete Buildings and Projects__. New York: Rizzoli, 1998. Reichold, Klaus, and Bernhard Graf. __Buildings That Changed the World__. Munich: Prestel, 2004. Rattenbury, Kester, Rob Bevan, and Kieran Long. __Architects Today__. London: Laurence King, 2004. Vallée, Sheila de. __Essays on Architecture__. London: Papadakis Pub, 2007.

__Essay outline:

Possible Title/Thesis:__ Is Zaha Hadid an Artist or a Designer?


 * find definitions of: Artist, Designer and Architect - from many definitions,.. form my own which i will then use to come to a conclusion for my question.
 * - Architect: what is architecture, what is the role of architecture, usefulness vs. visual or aesthetic appeal
 * - Where do the definitions conflict.


 * Zaha Hadid
 * - Background: professional (art and design), Personal (who she is) and the influences on her work (her teachers and colleagues)
 * - Development of her work/style
 * - Success or Failure to build


 * Case Studies: Buildings (both built and not built)
 * - Winning the Architecture prize (equivalence of the Nobel Prize) for a Building that was not built
 * --> Firestation - First Building - converted into a museum = why?
 * --> London 2012 Olympic Swimming Pool - law suits focused on whether it will collapse.
 * [Other works - not buildings: Cars, Furniture, seen in the Guggenheim Museum in New York (Personal Link)]


 * Her specific Style:
 * her use of time and space
 * Designs too complicated for modern technology
 * does this mean she makes art? it cannot be used
 * or does this mean she makes designs? Buildings for the future - ahead of her time.


 * how do architects design buildings (is there a male vs female approach)
 * the normal way to design a building, or Zaha's way - painting -> design
 * abstract mind-> art style?
 * abstract
 * surrealism
 * cubistic
 * new undiscovered style
 * (architecture) Deconstructiveism (popular in the 1980's)


 * All leads to the conclusion which could be:
 * Artist, Designer, both, or neither
 * My opinion =most likely both