More often than not, a building’s life cycle follows a take-make-waste approach. Extracted natural resources manufactured for construction materials frequently end up as waste that winds up in ...

A recent article by Stateline, a nonprofit news service that reports on state policy, says that deconstruction could be a viable source of jobs and building materials in cities with aging downtowns ...

Helmut Swiczinsky, the architect who cofounded Coop Himmelb(l)au with Wolf D. Prix and Michael Holzer, died on July 29 after battling a prolonged illness. He was 81. Swiczinsky will be remembered for ...

Matt Woods takes pride in "designing for deconstruction," which involves creating spaces and buildings that can easily be broken down at the end of a project. This philosophy is influenced by the high ...

For more than three decades—probably resulting from the globalization that began with the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989—historians and critics have identified various new threads of architectural ...