Ubiquitous Urbanism, Studio Hadid/ Schumacher, Columbia University, 1993, layering process: inflection/ interarticulation Grid Definition :  Structural grid, modular grid; a regular framework of reference lines to which the dimensions of major structural components of the plan of a building are fixed.  in town planning, a checkerboard network of intersecting streets and avenues forming the basic layout of a city or town. Grid Line...

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“Derrida.... asked me why architects should be interested in his work, since, he observed, ‘deconstruction is anti‐form, antihierarchy, anti‐structure – the opposite of all architecture stands for.’ ‘Precisely for this reason,’ was my response” ( Bernard Tschumi) Who is Jacque Derrida (1930 – 2004) ? He is a philospher who works on the borders of concepts not to show oppositions but to show...

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