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

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At some point in the school year, a student in my AP Literature class will ask the dreaded question: what is “Modernism?” Even though modern art seems “weird” to casual museum-goers, there was a method to the madness. Modern artists rejected representational conventions in pursuit of honest expression.

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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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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." The speakers were hooked up to a radio that sits alongside the chair.

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

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The very notion of a renaissance whole was put on the couch, revealed as a fiction, along with functionalist Bauhaus modernism, based on notions of serial industrial production and the normative. Deconstructivism in its diversity and focus on difference acknowledged the individuality that industrialized modernism stamped out.

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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. And both were fairly excessive.

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The Chiu, Hangzhou // NATURE TIMES ART DESIGN

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Project name: The Chiu, HangzhouLocation: L40, Raffles City, Xinye Road, Shangcheng District, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang ProvinceProject type: cateringArea: 750 square metersCompletion time: December 2021Design firm: Nature Times Art Design Co., © NATURE TIMES ART DESIGN. © NATURE TIMES ART DESIGN. .” © NATURE TIMES ART DESIGN.

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La Hacienda Jardín, Tepoztlán: Morelos home

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In this way, the large courtyard becomes the diaphragm that regulates the interactions, deconstructing the hermetic division between public and private spaces. The distribution of the perimeter wall and the definition of the layout on the ground plan unfold the walls in the form of staples and lattices that produce a play of light and shadow.

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