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2023 in Architecture Books, So Far

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

Although reading has been low on my list of priorities under the circumstances, I wanted to take the brief chance I have now to highlight some books released so far this year — a dozen of them, presented in order of date of publication. No doubt, people reading this book are eager to take on the question.

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Wexner Center for the Arts is "a building that is waiting to be a building"

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As we continue our deconstructivist series , we look at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Ohio by architect and theorist Peter Eisenman , which he claims "has nothing to do with deconstruction or deconstructivism.". The Wexner Center for the Arts was designed by Peter Eisenman. "I I had never read Derrida any of that stuff.

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

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Deconstructivism existed long before the 1970s, writes architecture critic Joseph Giovannini, who wrote the book Architecture Unbound to tell the full history of the style, in this opinion piece as part of our series revisiting deconstructivism. . In art, Cezanne challenged perspective, scrambling pictorial space by chunking it into pieces.

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

Architizer

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. Counterintuitive as it might seem, they wanted to bring art closer to life.

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Ten design projects by students at Toronto Metropolitan University

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Third-year studio IRN 601 addresses the design of the contemporary workplace. Students choose from a number of projects offered to explore and research emerging and contemporary issues in design." Seeing and Non-Seeing by Shuning Xie "Blindness is a 2008 English language thriller film adapted from José Saramago's book of the same name.

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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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Deconstructivism was built on intellectual rigour and a desire for exploration that contemporary architects do not share, says French-Swiss architect Bernard Tschumi in this exclusive interview as part of our series on the style. It's the contraction between constructivism and deconstruction. Quite often being very inventive.

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"It's amazing how things flip" from utopia to dystopia say artists Langlands & Bell

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In this exclusive interview , the artists explain why architecture plays a central role in their art. The Ideas of Utopia exhibition is installed in an arts centre next to the house. Ben Langlands: We met in 1978 when we were students at Hornsey College of Art [which later became part of Middlesex University].

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