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Trying to visualize a journey through contemporary architecture i am going to create some classic building elements moving around and then travelling from Europe to Chicago where the new style of architecture is shaping the new urban fabric of Chicago, works done by famous architects like Solivan and others...then i will go back to Europe where modern architecture is going to be dominant style of architecture, a few famous buildings by the architects of the time, adolf loos who said “embellishments are crime”, miss van de rohe who said “less is more “ le Corbusier who said ‘house is a machine for living” and other examples... ideas of futurists will be presented and the end of their period which was world war first when sant elia was killed in the war...modernism and international style began to grow faster after world war 2 when there was lots of destructions and millions of homeless people and huge demands for habitats. Resulting in simple design, cheep and fast construction methods...having cities around Europe which look the same and after that is the changes happening in philosophy which affected architecture ,philosophy of deconstruction proposed by Deleuz, which can be showed by making a deconstruction composition from a modern composition of building volumes...after this is the postmodernism, Charles Jencks who announced the death of modernity in his book and put an image from a modern apartment being demolished by explosion...ventury who said “les is bore”, More who said “more is more” and other examples, a post modern building and the first of the which is venture’s mother’s house is representative of postmodern architecture...after that is the folding architecture which can be presented by eisenman’s works and also by changing a normal rectangular building to its layers and then folding those to create a new building...after that is again Charles Jencks theory of jumping universe which can be presented by fractal geometry and also buildings designed by Frank o Gehry in new york ,Bilbao and so on...