Eleni Axioti
Architecture as Destruction
Maybe today one needs to destruct in order to construct the ‘new’; either through the literal destruction of the existing or through the insertion of an unfamiliar element that destructs through the act of shock and surprise. This theoretical investigation attempts to define this mechanism of architectural aesthetics and identify it in the contemporary architectural practices of R&Sie, Decosterd & Rahm and Ingrid Hora.

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