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bricolage

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bri·co·lage  (brk-läzh, brk-)
n.
Something made or put together using whatever materials happen to be available: "Even the decor is a bricolage, a mix of this and that" (Los Angeles Times).
[French, from bricole, trifle, from Old French, catapult, from Old Italian briccola, of Germanic origin.]
bricolage [ˈbrɪkəˌlɑːʒ (French) brɪkɔlaʒ]
n Architect
1. (Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Architecture) the jumbled effect produced by the close proximity of buildings from different periods and in different architectural styles
2. (Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Architecture) the deliberate creation of such an effect in certain modern developments the post-modernist bricolage of the new shopping centre


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Here, around 16 years ago, Zvi Hecker also built his famous Spiral apartment block (AR October 1990), an ebullient architectural bricolage, notable for the anecdote that Hecker (allegedly) took potshots at the building during construction (he lived across the street from the site), when he considered workmanship standards below par.
Zvi Hecker: art museum, Ramat Gan, Israel by The Architectural Review
After noticing the match-box, I have been unable to erase its significance from my mind as a symbol for the mechanics of Vodou: innovation, renovation, bricolage (or problem-solving with miniscule resources), irony, certitude, and interminable strength.
Vodou: Vision and Voices of Haiti by Rush, D. / African Arts
The differences in these efforts of ideological bricolage reflected more than white residential patterns and legal systems, however, and this paper should be taken as an initial foray into the comparative history of urban racial segregation, not a comprehensive treatment.
The transnational contexts of early twentieth-century American urban ... by Nightingale, Carl H. / Journal of Social History
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