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

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First, there was the literal deconstruction of buildings, of which Gehry was the pioneer. A lot of other experimentation going on during the late 1980s and early 1990s that came to be classified as deconstruction. This was the strategy that most closely aligned itself with Jacques Derrida and the literary movement of deconstruction.

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Dress sprayed onto model on Coperni catwalk at Paris Fashion Week

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However, the construction and deconstruction of garments on the runway is not an unfamiliar stunt.

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

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Sourcing clothing to upcycle is "like archaeology" Raeburn went on to study fashion at Middlesex University London before completing a master's at the Royal College of Art in 2006. As a student, he would thrift vintage military garments from markets across London to use for his projects. "At

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Architekturwoche Basel 2022 Biennal

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All the key components consist of reclaimed materials from regional deconstructions. Since its establishment in 2006, the Architektur Dialoge Foundation has sought to bring contemporary architecture to a wider audience and promote dialogue about architecture. The first edition will take place from 9–15 May 2022. Architektur Dialoge.

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BCO Awards 2023 Winners, British Council For Offices

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A materials passport and deconstruction guide for the project was one of the reasons the judges decided it was worthy of the Innovation award. On-going post occupancy evaluation also stood out as exemplary. Through the creative repositioning of the HERE Building, a forensic approach was adopted to tracking and minimising its carbon impact.

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2023 in Architecture Books, So Far

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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 [.]

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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.