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

Architizer

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

Deezen

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.". I never had heard the term deconstruction when I did the Wexner centre," Eisenman told Dezeen. "I It's just not.

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

Deezen

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. . Deconstuctivism was hardly invented in the 1970s and ‘80s and it hardly ended in the 90s.

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The legacy of deconstructivism "makes me want to retreat to the back of the room" says Bernard Tschumi

Deezen

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. Not the official modernism, but surrealism, futurism, constructivism and expressionism in cinema.

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Manchester School of Architecture spotlights nine architecture and humanities student projects

Deezen

The tests took into account quantitative variables: speed of drying and weight as well as qualitative variables in the safety of prototype construction, deconstruction and re-use, climate performance and building and life safety of the design.

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What Is a Yurt House? All Doubts Will Get Clear!

The Architecture Designs

Stay tuned as we attempt to deconstruct Yurt Tents and explain what a yurt is, some advice for living in one, and how you may convey one for yourself. He reported tent-like homes of the Scythians nomadic population of the central Asian plains who moved with their stuff on wagons in book four of Historia. How It All Begins!

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