Deconstructivism
Posted on:4/11/2006
| Deconstructivism, also called Deconstruction, is a recent school of thought in architecture which draws its philosophical bases from the literary movement Deconstruction. |
Deconstructivism, also called Deconstruction, is a recent school of thought in architecture which draws its philosophical bases from the literary movement Deconstruction.
It is a contemporary style that primarily counters the ordered rationality of Modern Architecture. The underpinnings of this movement include ideas of fragmentation, non-linear processes of design, non-Euclidean geometry, negating polarities such as structure and envelope, and so on. The final visual appearance of buildings in this style are characterized by a stimulating unpredictability and a controlled chaos, not totally dissimilar from how H. P. Lovecraft describes the alien ruins in Antarctica in his short story At the Mountains of Madness. However, critics of Deconstruction see it as a purely formal exercise with little social significance.
Some prominent architects who practice in this mode are:
Peter Eisenman
Frank Gehry
Zaha Hadid
Coop Himmelblau
Rem Koolhaas
Daniel Libeskind
Bernard Tschumi
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