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Deconstructivist architecture "challenges the very values of harmony, unity and stability"

Deezen

But the emergence of deconstructivism – an ungainly portmanteau of the mid-to-late twentieth-century philosophical movement, deconstruction, and 1920s Russian constructivism – suggested that the avant-garde's demise may have been exaggerated. The seminal Deconstructivist Architecture exhibition was held at the MoMA.

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The legacy of deconstructivism "makes me want to retreat to the back of the room" says Bernard Tschumi

Deezen

"Because so many corporate firms have literally learned too much, but purely about the image-making part of the deconstructive period.". He cites Norman Foster's recent proposal for a skyscraper in New York and "the architect from Denmark" as people who built on the form-making concepts developed by deconstructivism. After the park?

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Earth is the new client

Habitus Living

King’s mind seems to be a maximalist ideascape, where a plethora of concepts, plans and projects are envisioned. There’s definitely a level of denial, and that might have something to do with the fact that you kind of risk erasing yourself and making yourself redundant if you go all the way with this idea of sustainability.

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"Deconstructivism started well over a century ago and still continues today"

Deezen

Chronology was impossible in this planetary system without a sun; conception was by consensual orbit of many people circling one another within the same gravitational field, but acting more or less alone as they pursued their own trajectories. But that was in fact the whole point.

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HIX 2023 review: a design show with a unique a point of view

Hotel Designs

Alongside the workshop and another element to the ‘Umwelt Paradigm’, was the confession box which, started off as an experiment to carve out private space in the context of a bar, by deconstructing the notion of a bar. Colour also determines how we perceive a product, ” discussed Werner.

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Manchester School of Architecture spotlights nine architecture and humanities student projects

Deezen

The tests took into account quantitative variables: speed of drying and weight as well as qualitative variables in the safety of prototype construction, deconstruction and re-use, climate performance and building and life safety of the design.

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Unfinished by Design - Embracing Open-Ended Architecture

Community Architect

Michelangelo : unfinished Sculpture For something to be called unfinished it needs the concept of finished as a foil. Plato and Aristotle set the unfinished reality in contrast to an ideal concept of perfection and completion or a telos ( goal ) towards Aristotle saw the world move. What is " unfinished" ? Dignity Village Portland ).