Achyut Kanvinde-The Functionalist Architect

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  Achyut P. Kanvinde (1916 –2002), the Indian architect with functionalist approaches with elements of Brutalist architecture. He was born in Achra, in Konkan region of Maharashtra in 1916. He believed that a grid of columns forming a matrix giving structural and spatial aspect would turn a design more sophisticated and faceted. ·        1935: Studied architecture under Claude Batley in Sir J. J School of Arts ·        1945: Completed Masters from Harvard, student of Walter Gropius (Thesis on Science Laboratories) ·        1947: Chief Architect of CSIR (Council of Scientific and Industrial Research) ·        1955: Formed Kanvinde and Rai LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENTS ·         1976: Received the Padma Shree ·         1974-75: Became the president of IIA (Indian Institute of Architects) ·         1985: Winner of IIA “Baburao Mhatre Gold Medal” ·         1993: Awarded the Great Masters Award from JK Industries Ltd ·         Part of the jury on the competition for Indira
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Zaha Hadid- The Queen of Curves

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 Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid was a British-Iraqi architect born on 31st October 1950 in Baghdad, Iraq. She grew up in Baghdad’s first Bauhaus inspired buildings and became the founder of the leading Zaha Hadid Architects which has designed over 950 projects in 44 different countries. She was also talented in painting, graphic arts, 3D models and computer designs.
EDUCATION: Alma Mater- American University of Beirut and Architectural Association School of Architecture. She read Mathematics at The American University of Beirut before moving to study at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, where she met Rem Koolhas, Elia Zenghelis and Bernard Tschumi. Then she worked for her former professors, Koolhaas and Zenghelis, at the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, in Rotterdam, The Netherlands of which she became a partner in 1977.
Zaha Hadid became the first woman to be awarded Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2004, for her internationally known theoretical and academic work. Her dynamic and innovative projects are built on 30 years of revolutionary experimentation and research in urbanism, architecture and design. Her work tests the boundaries of architecture and design by using the concept of deconstructivism and fluidity. 
ARCHITECTURE PHILOSOPHY: The first building designed by her is the Fire Station near the German-Swiss border for furniture company Vitra, which contains numerous irregular angles. Her concepts were based on deconstructivism, concepts of fluidity, gravity-defying structures, fragmentation and revolutionary buildings, Her designs were always ahead of time and responsive to emerging social demands. There was always a conflict between her artistic ego and public spirit, which is what made her interesting.



ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: Hadid’s style was inspired by the theory of deconstructivism, which is a development of the post-modern architecture that began in the late 1980s. The characteristic feature was fragmentation, which manipulated the structure’s surface and skin into non-rectilinear shapes to appear as distort and dislocated elements of architecture. Her style was to break architecture, displace and distort it, leaving the horizontal and vertical planes, creating sharp angles and chaotic approach, for the buildings to appear to have no visual logic and disharmonious abstract forms.
Some of her most renowned works are given below:





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