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Rereading the Nineties

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

Am I suggesting that now, a quarter century into the millennium, when the pendulum has swung from formal and spatial considerations to environmental, social and other issues, that people dive into the Deconstructivist Architecture catalog, Violated Perfection , the AD issues devoted to Deconstruction, and other titles indicative of the nineties?

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Rotterdam 2023: Part 2 - Urban Design and Architecture

Community Architect

Part 1 covered transportation. Sustainability A lot of presenters used the term circular economy, meaning that materials used for construction are either recycled or will be recycled after a building gets "deconstructed". In a series of articles I will describe my most noteworthy insights and experiences from this trip.

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Ultimate List of Architecture Terms

Architecture Quote

Diagrammatic architecture is the usage of diagrams to develop a building or structure. The diagrams have the purpose to analyze problems and thereby develop solutions to them. Deconstruction. Deconstruction in architecture words is hence questioning what a building actually is, and challenging possibilities in structures.