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Manchester School of Architecture spotlights nine architecture and humanities student projects

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Dezeen School Shows: a library inspired by the history of industrial weaving mills is included in Dezeen's latest school show by students at Manchester School of Architecture. We are a large school with a BA of over 650 students.

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Kingston School of Art highlights 10 student design projects

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Dezeen School Shows: a fashion collection that celebrates the designer's Ukrainian roots and an allotment scheme at London's Docklands are included in Dezeen's latest school show by students at Kingston School of Art. In addition to learning core design and research skills, students work on live projects throughout the course.

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

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I used the phrase, coined by Coop Himmelb(l)au as part of its Blazing Wing installation (pictured), for a book I wrote and believed, at least for a while, that architecture could burn. First, there was the literal deconstruction of buildings, of which Gehry was the pioneer. The fire was ablaze in 1990.

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Residential Deconstruction versus Demolition | Life of an Architect

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Home / Buildings / Deconstruction versus Demolition Deconstruction versus Demolition Bob Borson — November 4, 2013 — 29 Comments Deconstruction is an environmentally friendly alternative to demolition and on the KHouse Modern project , the existing house on site is currently going through the process of being taken apart piece by piece.

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On Case Studies

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

Although the word monograph literally applies to any book devoted to any individual subject — be it a person, a place, a thing, or even an idea — in the realm of architecture books that one-word term is used more prevalently, if not strictly, in regards to individual architects and/or firms. A book on Le Corbusier is a monograph.

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

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Ben Langlands: We met in 1978 when we were students at Hornsey College of Art [which later became part of Middlesex University]. We found the plans of Villa la Rotunda by Palladio, the museum and the museum of modern art by Hans Hollein in Frankfurt, and Jeremy Bentham's Panopticon. They had that terrible fire [in 1980].

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