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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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Family·Maison Sales Center // UMA Interior Design

Architizer

The designer used cutting-edge modern design ideas, extracted the city’s technological sense attributes, and carried out a brand-new deconstruction and reorganization of the interior space, breaking the shackles of the exhibition space. It concentrates modern craftsmanship. © UMA Interior Design.

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AM-arqstudio

ArchiDiaries

It arises due to work developed since 2016 and the search for innovative responses to modern architecture in Portugal. It takes advantage of technological solutions that allow effective control of details in all phases of the project and construction, creating detailed specifications and 3d architecture.

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Ten architecture projects by students at Carleton University

Deezen

"The experiments have created a new sensory order from which a tectonic expression of architecture rooted in a particular place is created – a process that trespasses the taboos of the contaminated and embraces the uncertainties contained in land in the technological age of the Anthropocene."

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"Deconstructivism left us with the notion that architecture can be an act of continual revolution"

Deezen

The essence of what the disparate group of people, some of whom made it into the defining Museum of Modern Art exhibition or any number of books (including my own Violated Perfection of 1992), shared was a desire, first of all, to open, tear, break and reveal. Deconstruction became a digital dis- and reassembly of the world.

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Why aren't more architects using stone as a building material?

Deezen

Photo courtesy of Elisabeth Polzella Yet, despite the potential carbon savings, the material is not being commonly used as a modern construction material. Nowadays there's a lot of talk about deconstruction" Petkova argued that disassembling stone buildings is not without carbon cost. The top photo is by Paola Blasi.

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Why Are (Most) Sofas So Bad?

Dwell

Instead of going to a furniture or department store, says Sami Reiss, a journalist and Dwell contributor who operates Snake, a newsletter about furniture design, modern consumers "are buying a couch online that looks four times as good, costs two times the price, and is made twenty times more poorly." Today, not so much.