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Deconstructivist architecture "challenges the very values of harmony, unity and stability"

Deezen

While for most of the 20th century, the experimental, the innovative and the new had driven architectural culture forwards, by the late 1970s postmodernism had it pushing in many different directions: back as well as forwards, maybe sideways too – or even just staying still. The park was a defining deconstructivist project.

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Deconstructivism "killed off postmodernism" says Peter Eisenman

Deezen

Eisenman was a follower of ideals of deconstruction that were developed by philosopher Jacques Derrida and considers himself a deconstructionist architect rather than a deconstructivist one. He explained that of the others in the exhibition, only Bernard Tschumi "had any interest in deconstruction". Peter Eisenman: Quite true.

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Kurula Varkey Design Forum 2022: Call For Entries

ArchiDiaries

The forum intends to compare processes across Architecture schools and practitioners seeking to generate a discussion on the underlying principles of processes. KVDF 2022 manifests itself as an inquiry to deconstruct our practice as students of design. . How are flows of information and capital changing the design process?

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"The very idea of deconstructivism now seems hopelessly implausible"

Deezen

It is the ability to disturb our thinking about form that makes these projects deconstructive", Johnson and Wigley asserted in the accompanying catalogue, which featured Eisenman, Prix, Zaha Hadid , Bernard Tschumi , Frank Gehry , Daniel Libeskind and Rem Koolhaas , all getting their freak on.

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The legacy of deconstructivism "makes me want to retreat to the back of the room" says Bernard Tschumi

Deezen

"When you asked me what was deconstructivism's impact on contemporary architecture – that's where I want to retreat at the back of the room," said Tschumi. Because so many corporate firms have literally learned too much, but purely about the image-making part of the deconstructive period.". Tom Ravenscroft: Is that the same today?

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Rereading the Nineties

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

In my decade working as an architect in Chicago, from 1997, after graduating from architecture school, to 2006, when I left for grad school in New York City, I made many, many — many — trips to Prairie Avenue Bookshop, spending too much money there but always feeling when I walked out the door that I could have easily spent much, much more.

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2023 in Architecture Books, So Far

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

The book is a fitting result of a building, the Petite École , that functions as an architecture school for children. A House Deconstructed by Office of (Un)Certainty Research (Mark Jarzombek + Vikramaditya Prakash), published by Actar Publishers.