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

Deezen

The very notion of a renaissance whole was put on the couch, revealed as a fiction, along with functionalist Bauhaus modernism, based on notions of serial industrial production and the normative. Deconstructivism in its diversity and focus on difference acknowledged the individuality that industrialized modernism stamped out.

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

Deezen

According to Tschumi, who was one of the seven architects featured in the seminal Deconstructivist Architecture show at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) , deconstructivism had a serious intellectual ideology that was developed by young architects reinvestigating avant-garde architecture from the 1920s. And both were fairly excessive.

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HIX 2023 review: a design show with a unique a point of view

Hotel Designs

Alongside the workshop and another element to the ‘Umwelt Paradigm’, was the confession box which, started off as an experiment to carve out private space in the context of a bar, by deconstructing the notion of a bar. Colour also determines how we perceive a product, ” discussed Werner.

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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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Ten architecture projects by students at Manchester School of Art

Deezen

"Reimagining the historical textile industrial centre as a furniture and textiles upcycling hub, it addresses the issue of conspicuous consumption of mass-produced standardised products in modern-day society. This project considers the insertion of a nuclear concept into real space and use it to communicate its promise of clean energy.

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Ten architecture projects by students at Manchester School of Architecture

Deezen

"Reimagining the historical textile industrial centre as a furniture and textiles upcycling hub, it addresses the issue of conspicuous consumption of mass-produced standardised products in modern-day society. This project considers the insertion of a nuclear concept into real space and use it to communicate its promise of clean energy.