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University for the Creative Arts presents six interior architecture projects

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Dezeen School Shows: a farm-to-table restaurant and a clothes repair workshop for young people are featured in Dezeen's latest school show by interior architecture students from the University for the Creative Arts in Farnham, England. University for the Creative Arts. School: University for the Creative Arts.

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

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While for most of the 20th century, the experimental, the innovative and the new had driven architectural culture forwards, by the late 1970s postmodernism had it pushing in many different directions: back as well as forwards, maybe sideways too – or even just staying still.

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Deconstructivism "killed off postmodernism" says Peter Eisenman

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Above: he designed the deconstructivist Wexner Center for the Arts. Eisenman was a follower of ideals of deconstruction that were developed by philosopher Jacques Derrida and considers himself a deconstructionist architect rather than a deconstructivist one. Number one, deconstruction is not deconstructivist, okay?

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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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According to Tschumi, who was one of the seven architects featured in the seminal Deconstructivist Architecture show at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) , deconstructivism had a serious intellectual ideology that was developed by young architects reinvestigating avant-garde architecture from the 1920s. Bernard Tschumi: Frankly.

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2023 in Architecture Books, So Far

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The book is a fitting result of a building, the Petite École , that functions as an architecture school for children. A House Deconstructed by Office of (Un)Certainty Research (Mark Jarzombek + Vikramaditya Prakash), published by Actar Publishers.

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21 Best Architecture Firms in London

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Nowadays, the city remains home to preeminent architectural schools such as UCL’s Bartlett School of Architecture. We create architecture that improves people’s lives.We © Creative Prototyping Unit. Creative Prototyping Unit Limited* is a multidisciplinary design studio based in London.

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"The very idea of deconstructivism now seems hopelessly implausible"

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It is the ability to disturb our thinking about form that makes these projects deconstructive", Johnson and Wigley asserted in the accompanying catalogue, which featured Eisenman, Prix, Zaha Hadid , Bernard Tschumi , Frank Gehry , Daniel Libeskind and Rem Koolhaas , all getting their freak on. Decon also relished being "subversive".