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Deconstruction by Design: How Architects Are Redefining Practice Through Material Reuse

Architizer

However, it is important to acknowledge the potential costliness associated with demolishing or dismantling existing structures — according to Bloomberg, the demolition industry is currently valued at $8.7 Mock-ups, often made of high-end materials, are typically discarded after reviews, resulting in significant waste.

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The Reel House by MCA under costruction

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By slowly deconstructing and understanding the ‘magic’ behind the camera, we designed a project that curates a cohesive and evolving dialogue between the interior of the house and the beautiful back garden. Source by MCA.

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University of Southern California presents 10 architecture student projects

Deezen

This framework is applied to an affordable housing cooperative model located in Venice Beach in Los Angeles, USA, comprised of flexible and deconstructable mass timber modules." It creates a network of subversive structures – a playground, taco spot, library, amphitheater, mini golf course and butterfly refuge. "By

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2023 in Architecture Books, So Far

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

A House Deconstructed by Office of (Un)Certainty Research (Mark Jarzombek + Vikramaditya Prakash), published by Actar Publishers. The book is a fitting result of a building, the Petite École , that functions as an architecture school for children. M³: modeled works [archive] 1972-2022 by Thom Mayne and Morphosis, published by Rizzoli.

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Bernard Tschumi is the deconstructivist architect with big ideas

Deezen

Completed between 1976-81, The Manhattan Transcripts was a series of "episodes" that used a combination of photographs, architectural drawings, and notation-like diagrams of movement to depict often violent or dramatic events taking place in real New York locations, from a murder in Central Park to someone falling from a Manhattan skyscraper.

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On Case Studies

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

The middle third of the book's 216 pages is given over to an essay by architect Matteo Robbiglio, also titled "Past to Future," that is structured as lengthy captions to images that sit on pages between the French and English versions of the essay.

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Ultimate List of Architecture Terms

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Within architecture, adaptive reuse is a architecture synonym for already built structures that are not being used anymore and can be brought back to use while conserving the building’s resources and (potential) historic value. An arcade consists of a series of arches that are carried by columns that serve as support for the structure.