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"Deconstructivism left us with the notion that architecture can be an act of continual revolution"

Deezen

The essence of what the disparate group of people, some of whom made it into the defining Museum of Modern Art exhibition or any number of books (including my own Violated Perfection of 1992), shared was a desire, first of all, to open, tear, break and reveal. Deconstruction became a digital dis- and reassembly of the world.

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2023 in Architecture Books, So Far

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

A House Deconstructed by Office of (Un)Certainty Research (Mark Jarzombek + Vikramaditya Prakash), published by Actar Publishers. US release date: April 4, 2023 (Buy via Amazon or Bookshop ) In 2006, Dana Cuff founded cityLAB at UCLA , "a multidisciplinary center [.] Rather it should be: How does architecture describe the world?"

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BCO Awards 2023 Winners, British Council For Offices

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In the Refurbished/Recycled Workplace category, award-winning building, modern and flexible workspaces combine with vibrant communal areas to encourage interaction between occupiers. A materials passport and deconstruction guide for the project was one of the reasons the judges decided it was worthy of the Innovation award.

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Providence lost, regained II

Architecture Here and There

This train of thought originally came to me from Nikos Salingaros, a mathematician and architectural theorist based at the University of Texas and the author of Anti-Architecture and Deconstruction: The Triumph of Nihilism and other books. But there are other reasons why developers should prefer traditional to modern architecture.

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20 Inspirational Thought Leaders on the 10th Anniversary A+Awards Jury

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Most notably, The Museum of Modern Art, Pin-Up Magazine, The Graham Foundation, The New York Times, Architect Magazine, DesignMIAMI/ Art Basel, The Swiss Institute, Metropolis Magazine, Curbed, and The National Museum of African American History where he was identified as one of the future designers on the rise. Photography. Sebastian Weiss.

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HOME BREWED

Landscape Architecture Magazine

Artifacts unearthed in the vicinity suggest that it was a place of ceremony and trade for the ancestors of the modern Cherokee, who refer to the confluence as Untokiasdiyi, which means “where they race,” a reference to the dugout canoe sporting events once held here.

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100 Women to Watch in Architecture

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Square House is best described as subtly deconstructive. Since founding her eponymous practice in 2006, Frida Escobedo has developed a distinctive approach driven by the conviction that architecture and design represent, above all, a crucial means to interrogate and comment on social, economic, and political phenomena. Frida Escobedo.