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The SCBWI 19th Annual Winter Conference is sold out, and whether you'll be attending or not, make sure to follow along on here at our  SCBWI Conference Blog and on social media with the hashtag #NY18SCBWI! SCBWI Team Blog will be covering the Golden Kite Awards, the keynotes (Dan Santat! Angie Thomas!), the panels (Agents - including Kirsten Hall, Erin Murphy, Molly O'Neill, Brooks Sherman, and Marietta Zacker, and Editors - including Caitlyn Dlouhy, Tiffany Liao, Daniel Nayeri, and Jill Santopolo), the Portolio Showcase, and so much more! It's going to be amazing... Illustrate and Write On! Lee

“ 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 that concepts spill over one another, as soon as concepts are contaminated with that which is considered exterior or opposite to them, they are no longer what they are or what we thought they are. Deconstruction in Architecture (Notes and How to) : • Using the ambiguity of poststructuralism to create works of ambiguity and scandal • Revolting against modernism • Advocating acontextualism and creating an architecture that would undo the notion of a building into a solid physical object • Acontextualism: removed the building from its context • Deconstruction: removes the building from itself What do...