Deconstructivism

Postmodernism embraces older conventions and then violates them in an ironic way. Deconstructivism subverts, disturbs, and deconstructs older conventions.

Pompidou Centre National d'Art et Culture, Paris Richard Rogers, Renzo Piano, Ove Arup. (1971-77 Pompidu Center, Paris Renzo Piano 1971

Pompidou

Pompidou

Pompidou plan

Pompidou from Notre Dame

Ohio State University (the Wexner Center for the Arts) Peter Eisenman 1982

Wexner 1982-90

Wexner

Wexner

aerial

interior

Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Spain Frank Gehry 1993

Guggenheim

Drawing of west elevation 1992

Guggenheim

Elevation, note much is below grade

Site plan

Guggenheim

Guggenheim

Guggenheim

Guggenheim

interior

Interior

Jewish Museum , Berlin Daniel Libeskind Jewish Museum in Berlin, Daniel Libeskind

interior

interior

Interior, a void

Aronoff Center for Design and Art, Univ. Cincinnati, 1988-96 Peter Eisenman (Strickland, p.155) Eisenman's intent was not only to create lines that would draw attention, but ones that would reflect the school's purpose. "For students, living with and working in this building ought to be an education in itself," he says. "Any space created for a school of design should somehow reflect the activity carried out in the building. Design instruction always involves innovation and risk, as well as history and process -- in other words, all the issues that are involved in the disciplines to which the school is devoted."

Eisenman's intent was not only to create lines that would draw attention, but ones that would reflect the school's purpose. "For students, living with and working in this building ought to be an education in itself," he says. "Any space created for a school of design should somehow reflect the activity carried out in the building. Design instruction always involves innovation and risk, as well as history and process -- in other words, all the issues that are involved in the disciplines to which the school is devoted."

Stata Center at MIT Gehry The center is composed of The Bill Gates Building and the Alexander Dreyfoos Building. In addition to the client spaces, the Center houses an auditorium, four classrooms, a child-care facility, a food services facility, a fitness center, outdoor gathering spaces, two levels of below grade parking and a service facility MIT (Stata Center) Frank Gehry 2003

The center is composed of The Bill Gates Building and the Alexander Dreyfoos Building. In addition to the client spaces, the Center houses an auditorium, four classrooms, a child-care facility, a food services facility, a fitness center, outdoor gathering spaces, two levels of below grade parking and a service facility

MIT

MIT

MIT

MIT, amphitheater

MIT, interior