🗣Deconstructivism

Deconstructivism is a movement, then a part of architecture that influenced the style called deconstruction, which basically deals with the ideals of assembling and dismantling.

Distorted, weird, fascinating, extraordinary, are some of the adjectives used to describe the type of architecture deconstructivism offers. It could also be gravity defying, an abstract representation of a movement or simply an expression of varied artforms.

This unique style has been believed to have emerged and developed from postmodernism.

Some of the examples for structures built under this category-

#1 Walt Disney concert hall (2003), Franks Gehry, Los Angeles

• Symbolizes musical movement

• Symbolizes motion of sound

• Captivating design creating a sense of movement.

#2 Jewish museum (2001), Daniel Libeskind, Berlin

• Shaped as an abstract representation of a lightning bolt that acknowledges the tragic void of Jewish life in Berlin

• Has few openings in the form of uneven slits penetrating light into the structure representing scars and other harsh experiences of the Jews.

• Interior of the structure is dark and gloomy with no sense of direct movement, yet creating a sense of similar experiences through the interior form of the structure.

Deconstructivist

Jacque Derrida is a French philosopher who conveys his ideas through Fragmentation, Distortion, Unpredictability and Controlled chaos and whose ideas have been influential and hence borrowed from.

He expresses the term deconstruct as to reduce something to its fragments or constituent parts in order to reinterpret it, creating abstract forms that seem chaotic on the outside but functional on the inside.