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deconstructivism is a development of
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postmodern architecture that began in
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the late
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1980s it is influenced by the theory of
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deconstruction which is a form of
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semiotic analysis it is characterized by
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fragmentation an interest in
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manipulating a structures surface skin
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non-rectilinear shapes which appear to
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distort and dislocate elements of
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architecture such as structure and
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envelope the finished visual appearance
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of buildings that exhibit
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deconstructivist styles is characterized
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by unpredictability and Controlled Chaos
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history deconstructivism came to public
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notice with the 1982 Park de laet
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architectural design competition the
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Museum of Modern Arty euro1 registered
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trademark S1 1988 deconstructivist
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architecture exhibition in New York
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organized by Philip Johnson and Mark
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wiggley and the 1989 opening of the Aire
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Center for the Arts in Columbus designed
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by Peter senman the New York exhibition
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featured works by Frank gurri Daniel
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lekin REM kulus Peter isenman Sahar haed
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kiml l or and Bernard chumi since the
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exhibition some Architects associated
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with deconstructivism have distanced
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themselves from it nonetheless the term
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has stuck and has come to embrace a
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general Trend within contemporary
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architecture misconceptions Bernard
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chumi stated that calling the work of
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The Architects who exhibited in 1988 and
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competed for the park de laeta movement
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or a new style was out of context and
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showed a lack of understanding of their
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ideas shimi believed that
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deconstructivism was simply a move
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against the practice of postmodernism
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which he said involved making Doric
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temporal forms out of plywood Gallery
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history context and influences modernism
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and
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postmodernism the term deconstructivism
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in contemporary architecture is opposed
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to to the ordered rationality of
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modernism and
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postmodernism though postmodernist and
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NACI deconstructivist Architects both
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published in the journal oppositions
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that journal's contents Mark a decisive
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break between the two movements
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deconstructivism took a confrontational
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stance to architectural history wanting
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to disassemble architecture while
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postmodernism returned to embrace the
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historical references that modernism had
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shunned possibly ironically
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deconstructivism rejected the postmodern
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acceptance of such references as well as
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the idea of ornament as an afterthought
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or decoration in addition to oppositions
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a defining text for both
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deconstructivism and postmodernism was
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Robert Ventura's complexity and
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contradiction in architecture it argues
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against the Purity Clarity and
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simplicity of modernism with its
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publication functionalism and
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rationalism the two main branches of
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modernism were overturned as paradigms
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the reading of the postmodernist Venturi
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was that ornament and historical
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illusion added a richness to
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architecture that modernism had forgone
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some postmodern Architects endeavored to
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reapply ornament even to economical and
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minimal buildings described by Venturi
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as the decorated shed rationalism of
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design was dismissed but the
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functionalism of the building was still
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somewhat intact this is close to the
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thesis of Ventura's next major work that
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signs and ornament can be applied to a
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pragmatic AR architecture and instill
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the philosophic complexities of
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semiology the deconstructivist reading
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of complexity and contradiction is quite
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different the basic building was the
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subject of problematics and intricacies
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in deconstructivism with no Detachment
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for ornament rather than separating
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ornament and function like
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postmodernists such as Venturi the
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functional aspects of buildings were
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called into question geometry was to
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deconstructivist what ornament was to
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modernists the subject of complication
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and this complication of geometry was in
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turn applied to the functional
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structural and spatial aspects of
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deconstructivist buildings one example
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of deconstructivist complexity is Frank
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gur's vitra design Museum in vamin which
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takes the typical unor white cube of
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modernist art galleries and deconstructs
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it using geometri is reminiscent of
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cubism and Abstract
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expressionism this subverts the
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functional aspect of modernist
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Simplicity while taking modernism
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particularly the international style of
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which its white stacco skin is
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reminiscent as a starting point another
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example of the deconstructivist reading
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of complexity and contradiction is
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peterman's Aire Center for the Arts the
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Eire Center takes the archetypal form of
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the castle which it then imbus with
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complexity in a series of cuts and
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fragmentations a three-dimensional grid
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runs somewhat arbitr through the
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building the grid as a reference to
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modernism of which it is an acut
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collides with the medieval Antiquity of
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a castle some of the grids columns
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intentionally don't reach the ground
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hovering over stairways creating a sense
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of neurotic an and contradicting the
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structural purpose of the column the
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Aire Center deconstructs the archetype
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of the castle and renders its spaces and
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structure with conflict and difference
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deconstructivist philosophy some
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deconstructive Architects were
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influenced by the French philosopher Jac
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dereda I senman was a friend of dereda
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but even so his approach to
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architectural design was developed long
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before he became a
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deconstructivist for him
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deconstructivism should be considered an
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extension of his interest in radical
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formalism some practitioners of
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deconstructivism were also influenced by
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the formal experimentation and geometric
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imbalances of Russian
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constructivism there are additional
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references in deconstructivism to 20th
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century movements the modernism
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postmodernism into play expressionism
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cubism minimalism and Contemporary Art
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deconstructivism attempts to move away
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from the supposedly constricting rules
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of modernism such as form follows
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function purity of form and Truth to
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materials the main channel from
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deconstructivist philosophy to
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architectural theory was through the
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philosopher Jac der's influence with
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Peter
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renman senman drew some philosophical
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basis from the literary movement
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deconstruction and collaborated directly
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with dareda on projects including an
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entry for the park D laet competition
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documented in cor L works both dareda
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andman as well as Daniel lie beskin were
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concerned with the metaphysics of
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presence and this is the main subject of
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deconstructivist philosophy in
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architecture Theory the presupposition
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is that architecture is a language
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capable of communicating meaning and of
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receiving treatments by methods of
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linguistic philosophy the dialectic of
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presence and absence or solid and void
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occurs in much of the asen's projects
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both built and unbuilt both dereda
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andman believe that the locus or place
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of presence is architecture and the same
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dialectic of presence and absence is
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found in construction and
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deconstructivism according to Dera
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readings of texts are best carried out
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when working with classical narrative
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structures any AR architectural
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deconstructivism requires the existence
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of a particular archetypal construction
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a strongly established conventional
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expectation to play flexibly against the
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design of Frank Gula Euro unregistered
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trademark s own Santa Monica residence
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has been cited as a prototypical
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deconstructivist building his starting
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point was a prototypical Suburban House
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embodied with a typical set of intended
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social meanings gurri altered its
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massing spatial envelopes planes and
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other expectations in a playful
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subversion an act of deconstruction in
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addition to ded's concepts of the
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metaphysics of presence and
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deconstructivism his Notions of trace
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and Erasure embodied in his philosophy
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of writing and art writing found their
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way into deconstructivist memorials
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Daniel liebeskind envisioned many of his
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early projects as a form of writing or
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discourse on writing and often works
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with a form of concrete poetry he made
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architectural sculptures out of books
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and often coed them models in texts
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openly making his architecture refer to
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writing the Notions of trace and aasia
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were taken up by Li bkin in essays and
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in his project for the Jewish Museum
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Berlin the museum is conceived as a
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trace of the Erasure of the Holocaust
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intended to make its subject legible and
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poignant memorials such as Maya Lyn's
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Vietnam Veterans Memorial and peterman's
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Memorial to the murdered Jews of Europe
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are also said to reflect themes of trace
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and aasia constructivism and Russian
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futurism another major current and
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deconstructivist architecture takes
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inspiration from the Russian
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constructivist and futurist movements of
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the early 20th century both in their
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graphics and in their Visionary
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architecture little of which was
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actually
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constructed artists Nar gabo litski kir
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malvik and Alexander renko have
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influence the graphic sense of geometric
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forms of deconstructivist Architects
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such as Sahar haded and po himl l or
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both deconstructivism and constructivism
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have been concerned with the tectonics
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of making an abstract assemblage both
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were concerned with the radical
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Simplicity of geometric forms as the
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primary artistic content expressed in
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graphics sculpture and architecture the
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constructivist tendency toward purism
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though is absent and deconstructivism
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form is often deformed when construction
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is
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deconstructed also lessened or absent is
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the advocacy of socialist and
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collectivist causes the primary graphic
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motifs of constructivism were the
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rectangular bar and the Triangular wedge
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others were the more basic geometries of
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the square and the circle in his series
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PRS litski assembled collections of
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geometries at various angles floating
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free in space they evoke basic
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structural units such as Bars of Steel
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or saor Lumber Loosely attached piled or
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scattered they were also often drafted
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and share aspects with technical drawing
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and engineering drawing similar in
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composition is the deconstructivist
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series micronas by Daniel
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leusin the symbolic breakdown of the
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wall affected by introducing the
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constructivist motifs of tilted and
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crossed bars sets up a subversion of the
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walls that Define the bar itself this
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apparent chaos actually constructs the
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walls that Define the bar it is the
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structure the internal disorder produces
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the bar while splitting it even as
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gashes open up along its length a Euro
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Philip Johnson and Mark wiggley
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deconstructive architecture Pages
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34 Contemporary Art two strains of
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Modern Art minimalism and cubism have
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had an influence on
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deconstructivism analytical cubism had a
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sure effect on
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deconstructivism as forms and content
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are dissected and viewed from different
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perspectives
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simultaneously a synchronicity of
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destroying space is evident in many of
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the works of Frank gurri and Bernard
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chumi synthetic cubism with its
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application of found art is not as great
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an influence on deconstructivism as
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analytical cubism but is still found in
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the earlier and more vernacular works of
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Frank gurri deconstructivism also shares
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with minimalism a disconnection from
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cultural
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references with its tendency towards
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deformation and dislocation there is
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also an aspect of expressionism and
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expression architecture associated with
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deconstructivism at times
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deconstructivism mirrors varieties of
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expressionism neoexpressionism and
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Abstract expressionism as well the
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angular forms of the EA Cinema Center by
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CP piml l or recall the abstract
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geometries of the numbered paintings of
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France Klein in their unadorned masses
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the UFA Cinema Center also would make a
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lightly setting for the angular figures
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depicted in urban German Street Scenes
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by ER lvic kirkner the work of wasili
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Kandinsky also Bears similarities to
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deconstructivist architecture his
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movement into abstract expressionism and
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away from figurative work is in the same
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Spirit as the deconstructivist rejection
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of ornament for
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geometries several artists in the 1980s
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and 1990s contributed work that
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influenced or took part in
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deconstructivism Maya Lynn and Rachel
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wied are two examples Lynn's 19 1982
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project for the Vietnam Veterans
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Memorial with its granite slab severing
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the ground plain is one its Shard likee
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form and reduction of content to a
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minimalist text influenced
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deconstructivism with its sense of
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fragmentation and emphasis on reading
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the monument Lynn also contributed work
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for re senman X Center Rachel Witter
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eeds cast architectural spaces are
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another instance where Contemporary Art
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is confluent with architecture ghost and
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entire living space cast in plaster
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solidifying the void alludes to ded's
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notion of architectural presence Gordon
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mat Clark's building Cuts were
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deconstructed sections of buildings
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exhibited in art galleries 1988 momar
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exhibition Mark wiggley and Philip
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Johnson curated the 1988 Museum of
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Modern Art exhibition deconstructivist
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architecture which crystallized the
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movement and brought Fame and notoriety
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to its key practitioners
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The Architects presented at the
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exhibition were Peter senman Frank gurri
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Sahar haed kiml blow REM kulus Daniel
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leein and Bernard chumi Mark wiggley
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wrote the accompanying essay and tried
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to show a Common Thread among the
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various Architects whose work was
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usually more noted for their differences
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the projects in this exhibition Mark a
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different sensibility one in which the
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dream of pure form has been Disturbed it
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is the ability to disturb our thinking
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about that makes these projects
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deconstructive the show examines an
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episode a point of intersection between
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several Architects where each constructs
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an unsettling building by exploiting the
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hidden potential of modernism a Euro
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Philip Johnson and Mark wiggley excerpt
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from the momar deconstructivist
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architecture catalog computer AED design
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computer AED design is now an essential
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tool in most aspects of contemporary
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architecture but the particular nature
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of deconstructive ISM makes the use of
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computers especially pertinent
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three-dimensional modeling and animation
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assists in the conception of very
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complicated spaces while the ability to
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link computer models to manufacturing
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jigs allows the mass production of
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subtly different modular elements to be
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achieved at affordable costs in
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retrospect many early deconstructivist
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Works appear to have been conceived with
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the aid of a computer but were not Sahar
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haed sketches for instance also gole is
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noted for producing many physical models
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as well as computer models as part of
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his design process though the computer
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has made the designing of complex shapes
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much easier not everything that looks
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odd is
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deconstructivist critical responses
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since the publication of Kenneth
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Frampton's modern architecture a
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critical history there has been a keen
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consciousness of the role of criticism
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within architectural Theory whilst
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referencing Dera as a philosophical
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influence deconstructivism can can also
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be seen as having as much a basis in
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critical theory as the other major
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offshoot of postmodernism critical
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regionalism the two aspects of critical
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theory urgency and Analysis are found in
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deconstructivism there is a tendency to
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reexamine and critique other works or
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precedence in
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deconstructivism and also a tendency to
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set aesthetic issues in the
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foreground an example of this is the
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acire center critical theory however had
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it its core a critique of capitalism and
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its success and from that respect many
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of the works of the deconstructivist
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would fail in that regard If Only They
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Are Made for an elite and are as objects
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highly expensive despite whatever
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critique they may claim to impart on the
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conventions of design the difference
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between criticality in deconstructivism
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and criticality in critical regionalism
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is that critical regionalism reduces the
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overall level of complexity involved and
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maintains a clearer analysis while
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attempting to reconcile modernist
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architecture with local
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differences in effect this leads to a
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modernist vernacular critical
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regionalism displays a lack of
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self-criticism and a utopianism of place
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deconstructivism meanwhile maintains a
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level of self-criticism as well as
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external criticism and tends towards
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maintaining a level of
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complexity some Architects identified
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with a movement notably Frank gurri have
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actively rejected the classification of
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their work as
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deconstructivist critics of
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deconstructivism see it as a purely
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formal exercise with little social
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significance Kenneth Frampton finds it
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elitist and detached Niko Salin garos
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calls deconstructivism a viral
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expression that invades design thinking
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in order to build destroyed forms while
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curiously similar to both dares and
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Philip Johnson's descriptions this is
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meant as a harsh condemnation of the
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entire movement other criticis is Ms are
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similar to those of deconstructivist
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philosopher or Euro that since the act
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of deconstructivism is not an empirical
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process it can result in whatever an
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architect wishes and it thus suffers
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from a lack of
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consistency today there is a sense that
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the philosophical underpinnings of the
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beginning of the movement have been lost
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and all that is left is the aesthetic of
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deconstructivism other criticisms reject
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the premise that architecture is a
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language capable of being the subject of
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linguistic philosophy or if it was a
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language in the past critics claim it is
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no longer others question the wisdom and
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impact on future generations of an
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architecture that rejects the past and
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presents no clear values as Replacements
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and which often pursues strategies that
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are intentionally aggressive to human
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senses see also constructivism
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structuralism futurism Russian futurism
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novelty architecture bism Gan quarter
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enia Benish the main rooftop remodeling
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fistas notes
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references external links aredia website
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German WEA postmodern Spanish vican
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Medina former y compos Cub arite actual
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