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Deconstructivist architecture "challenges the very values of harmony, unity and stability"

Deezen

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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Earth is the new client

Habitus Living

King’s mind seems to be a maximalist ideascape, where a plethora of concepts, plans and projects are envisioned. There’s definitely a level of denial, and that might have something to do with the fact that you kind of risk erasing yourself and making yourself redundant if you go all the way with this idea of sustainability.

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

Deezen

Chronology was impossible in this planetary system without a sun; conception was by consensual orbit of many people circling one another within the same gravitational field, but acting more or less alone as they pursued their own trajectories. But that was in fact the whole point.

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

Deezen

"Because so many corporate firms have literally learned too much, but purely about the image-making part of the deconstructive period.". He cites Norman Foster's recent proposal for a skyscraper in New York and "the architect from Denmark" as people who built on the form-making concepts developed by deconstructivism. After the park?

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La Hacienda Jardín, Tepoztlán: Morelos home

e-architect

photo : Oscar Hernández La Hacienda Jardín reflects on the typology of the weekend house and the specificities it requires in a given context by reinterpreting the concept of the hacienda. The architectural program questions the area’s predominant practice of first fencing off a property and then inserting a building and landscaping the rest.

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Roundtable: stimulating wellness through design

Hotel Designs

With this in mind, Kilburn started the conversation by asking Loucks what, as a result of her research in this field, inspired her to integrate concepts of wellness into design. There are so many layers to the concept and a hotel is becoming much more than a place to sleep, it is about creating moments of wellbeing on different levels.

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Ten architecture projects by students at Manchester School of Art

Deezen

This project considers the insertion of a nuclear concept into real space and use it to communicate its promise of clean energy. "Nuclear power is a brutally urgent icon of climate action – an architectural icon that has the power to communicate across scales. It can connect individual level views with global views on the issues of our time.