Origamic architecture

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Origamic architecture involves the three-dimensional reproduction of architecture, geometric patterns, and everyday objects, on various scales, using cut-out and folded paper, usually thin cardboard. Visually, these creations are comparable to intricate 'pop-ups', indeed, some works are deliberately engineered to possess 'pop-up'-like properties.

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Like origami, origamic architecture originates from Japan, but has tentatively spread to other countries. Tokyo Institute of Technology professor Masahiro Chatani is credited as the art form's creator, a practitioner of it since the 1980s. The dutch Ingrid Siliakus is well known all over the world for her designs of buildings and her book Papierarchitectuur, van gebouw tot kaart.

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