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  2. Deconstructivism - Wikipedia

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    Deconstructivism is a postmodern architectural movement which appeared in the 1980s. It gives the impression of the fragmentation of the constructed building, commonly characterised by an absence of obvious harmony, continuity, or symmetry. [ 1 ]

  3. List of time periods - Wikipedia

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    Victorian era (the United Kingdom, 1837–1901); British hegemony (1815–1914) much of world, around the same time period. Belle Époque (Europe, primarily France, 1871–1914) Edwardian era (the United Kingdom, 1901–1914) First, interwar period and Second World Wars (1914–1945) Interwar Britain (United Kingdom, 1918–1939) Cold War (1945 ...

  4. Deconstruction - Wikipedia

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    [29]: 2 The structural problematic for Derrida is the tension between genesis, that which is "in the essential mode of creation or movement", and structure: "systems, or complexes, or static configurations". [18]: 194 An example of genesis would be the sensory ideas from which knowledge is then derived in the empirical epistemology.

  5. Postmodern architecture - Wikipedia

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    The gatehouse, called "Da Monstra", is 23 feet high, made of gunite, or concrete shot from a hose, colored gray and red. It is a piece of sculptural architecture with no right angles and very few straight lines, a predecessor of the sculptural contemporary architecture of the 21st century. [11]

  6. History of architecture - Wikipedia

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    The domestication of plants and animals, for example, led to both new economics and a new relationship between people and the world, an increase in community size and permanence, a massive development of material culture and new social and ritual solutions to enable people to live together in these communities.

  7. Category:Deconstructivism - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Deconstructivism" The following 53 pages are in this category, out of 53 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...

  8. Contemporary architecture - Wikipedia

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    Contemporary architecture is the architecture of the 21st century. No single style is dominant. [1] Contemporary architects work in several different styles, from postmodernism, high-tech architecture and new references and interpretations of traditional architecture [2] [3] to highly conceptual forms and designs, resembling sculpture on an enormous scale.

  9. Brutalist architecture - Wikipedia

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    The artistic expression of the gate marked an entire era in Serbian architecture. [51] In Vietnam, brutalist architecture is particularly popular among old public buildings and has been associated with the bao cấp era (lit: subsidizing), the period during which the country followed Soviet-type economic planning.