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“The World’s First Horror Film Was All About Modern Architecture. Change My Mind.”

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In literature and the visual arts — the representational arts, let’s say — modernism was an attempt to find new forms of artistic expression to meet the needs of a rapidly changing world where old certainties and trust in institutions were falling away. A conceptual preliminary sketch of the set design by Walter Röhrig.

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PURE NFTEA Tea House, Shenzhen, China

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In this way, an asymmetrical yet balanced frame was constructed on the horizontal plane, defining a new space in a deconstructive manner. 2 Deconstruction Chinese Lego blocks — mortise-and-tenon structures, a flexible joint in architecture “The Sun (tenon) and Mao (mortise) represent the Yang and Yin elements in Chinese philosophy. .”

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On Case Studies

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

They can serve as vehicles for exploring ideas, as in Benedikt's book on the Kimbell; they can serve as repositories for the many sketches, drawings, and photographs produced about a place; or they can exist somewhere in between on such a spectrum between critical analysis and laudatory presentation.

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Ultimate List of Architecture Terms

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The style became a part of the architecture vocabulary during the French revolution, yet it still hasn’t lost its popularity in contemporary architecture. The top layer is the one visible, and hence it is usually visually more attractive. Deconstruction. Hotdog stand. Colour Theory in architecture terms. Figure Ground.

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100 Women to Watch in Architecture

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Square House is best described as subtly deconstructive. In her 2017 TED Talk, Chieza demonstrates how emerging biotechnologies converge with craft and interact with the contemporary realities of resource scarcity, climate change, and sustainable development. Keely Colcleugh. Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara (Grafton Architects).