Mr. Ban, who is famous for making sturdy, temporary structures for the world's refugees and victims of disasters, loves assembling, disassembling and then reassembling recyclable materials.
In France, Germany, and elsewhere, artists started culling photographs and printed matter from the urban landscape of newspapers, magazines, advertisements, propaganda and so on, and reassembling these materials in an interpretive and fractured accumulation that spoke to what was already considered information overload.
To Marsh, Dexter's crimes include not only passing on the Beatles at least three separate times — rejecting "Love Me Do," "Please Please Me" and "She Loves You" as having no singles potential — but then changing his mind, only to dismantle, reassemble and rearrange material off the first two British albums to create inferior American versions, including the subject of this book.
The Propædia specifically was a reader's version of the circle of learning on which the set had been based and was organized in such a way that a reader might reassemble in meaningful ways material that the accident of alphabetization had dispersed.
"The ability to digitally fabricate, disassemble, and reassemble structures with no material losses changes the paradigm of architecture as well as the view of permanent / temporary architecture," Thoma continues.
This show is trying to reassemble the imaginative visual materials of California into some coherence.
If different breeds of primitive cattle preserve different stretches of the aurochs's genetic material, then reassembling those stretches should produce something close to — though not exactly like — the original.
And Martin isn't one to shy away from picking apart his older material and reassembling it as something new.
The memorial was closed because modern materials used to reassemble the dwelling had not held up well to the elements, one official has said.
About "Cortège Hongrois," a reassembling of classical theme-and-variations material choreographed by Marius Petipa in the 1898 "Raymonda," there is more to say.
"You don't even need to synthesise anything new," says Eckhard Wimmer, a virologist at New York State University at Stony Brook who first demonstrated that the polio virus can be reassembled from tiny pieces of hereditary material.
