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

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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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How a Former NFL Player Is Keeping the Past Alive Using Design

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I’m thinking of this African diasporic language—being an African American, which is, by definition, an African who’s an American who has this lineage to Africa—in finding ways to discover what that looks like in architecture, in form, in objects," Bennett says.

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Noel Mercado uses salvaged car parts to modify Marcel Breuer chairs

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Mercado deconstructed the classic metal-and-leather chair, reupholstering it with seat belts garnered from a junkyard in Chicago. "[It "Highlighting these aspects of a car that can often go unnoticed, the things we might look past due to repetition."

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"I've seen the entire narrative change" around sustainable fashion says Christopher Raeburn

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Recycled polyethylene terephthalate (PET) is a really good example where prices have definitely come down – all of those plastic bottles that we're able to put into the recycling can be chipped into pellets, made into fibre and made into material," he added. Among the designer's past projects is a coat made from life rafts.

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Six fashion and textile student projects that centre on their materials

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The materials and their virtual simulation react to the surrounding conditions and demonstrate that the way we look at things plays a big role in their definition." In a series of deconstructed clothing items, layers are removed, threads exposed and microscopically small fragments are blown-up to exaggerated proportions."

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

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Because so many corporate firms have literally learned too much, but purely about the image-making part of the deconstructive period.". It's the contraction between constructivism and deconstruction. I'll explain in a minute why constructivism and deconstruction made sense. But the two together may not have made any sense.

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"I always felt slightly repulsed" by deconstructivist label says Daniel Libeskind

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It derives from the deconstruction approach to philosophy and the architectural style of constructivism. I personally have always felt that [deconstructivism] was not a good term for architecture, because deconstruction in architecture seems to suggest falling apart," he said. "It Above: he designed the Jewish Museum Berlin.