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

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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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How a Former NFL Player Is Keeping the Past Alive Using Design

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I’m thinking of this African diasporic language—being an African American, which is, by definition, an African who’s an American who has this lineage to Africa—in finding ways to discover what that looks like in architecture, in form, in objects," Bennett says.

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Noel Mercado uses salvaged car parts to modify Marcel Breuer chairs

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Mercado deconstructed the classic metal-and-leather chair, reupholstering it with seat belts garnered from a junkyard in Chicago. "[It "Highlighting these aspects of a car that can often go unnoticed, the things we might look past due to repetition."

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"The most important factor in design is time and place" says Ai Weiwei

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The exhibition, he explained, is about "how humans make definitions about our life, our memories and how our design acts relate to our past, our history and also [how they] relate to current personal issues or political issues". So there are several works directly related to deconstruction," he added. More than just old buildings.

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Six fashion and textile student projects that centre on their materials

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The materials and their virtual simulation react to the surrounding conditions and demonstrate that the way we look at things plays a big role in their definition." In a series of deconstructed clothing items, layers are removed, threads exposed and microscopically small fragments are blown-up to exaggerated proportions."

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"I've seen the entire narrative change" around sustainable fashion says Christopher Raeburn

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Recycled polyethylene terephthalate (PET) is a really good example where prices have definitely come down – all of those plastic bottles that we're able to put into the recycling can be chipped into pellets, made into fibre and made into material," he added. Among the designer's past projects is a coat made from life rafts.

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

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When I coined the term deconstructivism, I intended that its nominal constituents – deconstruction and constructivism – merely stand in for all the many influences coursing through an architecture that had opened to an orgy of interdisciplinarity. But that was in fact the whole point.