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Ten architecture projects by students at Carleton University

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Dirt: Making with Contaminated Lands by Ju Huang "My thesis explores dirt in the contemporary world and its place in architecture through a series of ceramic-making exercises. "Projects shown include responses to the climate emergency, community-led design-build projects as well as land-based and socio-spatial inquiries."

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Made by Fire explores "the power and fragility of Bohemian glass and porcelain"

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Image by LLEV Further examples are the Birth of the Future Behind Glass by artist FrantiĊĦek Jungvirt where Jungvirt has reinterpreted the design of traditional vases by deconstructing them and a vase by LLEV studio that was made by blowing molten glass into a mould made from mycelium.

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Formafantasma and Artek's Cambio exhibition explores Finnish design's link to forestry

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Design duo Formafantasma has collaborated with furniture brand Artek to explore the relationship between the timber and design industries in Finland through an exhibition at Helsinki Design Museum. A contemporary model of Aalto's Screen 100 is also on show. Formafantasma created an installation of interlocked Stool 60s.

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Prix de Rome Architecture 2022 winner: Lesia Topolnyk

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Lesia Topolnyk uses narrative and construction techniques to deconstruct this relationship in her dark, oppressive design. She argues that trauma processing and reconstruction in such a place can take place only after such a deconstruction, and that architecture can mediate in this. Contemporary Dutch Architecture. Publication.

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"I always felt slightly repulsed" by deconstructivist label says Daniel Libeskind

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It derives from the deconstruction approach to philosophy and the architectural style of constructivism. I personally have always felt that [deconstructivism] was not a good term for architecture, because deconstruction in architecture seems to suggest falling apart," he said. "It Above: he designed the Jewish Museum Berlin.

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This week on Dezeen the first images of Heatherwick's Platinum Jubilee sculpture were revealed

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We continued our series on deconstructivism with an interview with architect Bernard Tschumi who argued that the architecture style was built on a desire for exploration that contemporary architects do not share. So many corporate firms have literally learned too much, but purely about the image-making part of the deconstructive period.".

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

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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.