We live in a throwaway economy. Advertising, built-in obsolescence, and undervaluing labor contribute to this system. Right-to-repair laws are pushing against this embedded pattern, with California ...

T here is much at stake in the shift from the present to the past — and so it is with Timothy Brennan’s recent Chronicle essay, “What Was Deconstruction?” In the headline’s formulation, the end of ...

This world’s first fully electric deconstruction site is being hailed as a landmark in sustainable urban development — and it’s powered by Siemens technology and Volvo Group’s battery-electric trucks ...

When it comes to building materials, Portland doesn’t just want to promote recycling; the city is making efforts to mandate reduction and reuse. This summer, the city council unanimously passed an ...

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 ...

BALTIMORE — One sunny morning, several men and one woman wearing hard hats pick apart the insides of an old vacant rowhouse. Dust dances around what was once a living room. A rotting stairway looks as ...

I n 1990, at the Humanities Research Institute at University of California at Irvine, I found myself sitting next to Jacques Derrida at a lecture given by Ernesto Laclau. The topic was Antonio Gramsci ...