history

1. Contemporary Design (Deconstructivism)
Deconstructivism (deconstruction) in
architecture, a development of Post
Modernism that begin in late 1980’s. It is
characterized by the ideas of fragmentation
which serve to distort and dislocate some of
the elements of architecture like the structure
and the finished visual appearance of buildings
that exhibit the many deconstructivist ‘styles’
Vi tra Design Museum by Frank Gehry, Weil am
Rhein, Germany
is characterized by a simulating unpredictability and a controlled chaos.
In 1982, a Parc de la Villette architectural
design competition organized by Philip
Johnson and Mark Wigley began the
Deconstructivism as the entry of Jacques
Derrida, Peter Eisenman and Bernard
Tschumi’s winning entry. Since the
exhibition, some architects associated with
Deconstructivism have distanced
themselves from it. Nonetheless, the term has stuck and has come to
embrace a general trend within contemporary architecture.
The characteristic of Deconstrcutivism include architecture is exploded into loose
collections of related fragment; the used of diagonal line destroyed the dominance
of the right angle and cube; ideas and images of Russian Revolutionary architecture
and design is used; challenge familiar ideas about space, order and regularity in the
environment; ‘perfect form’ is rejected; two strains of modern art, minimalism and
cubism, have had an influence on deconstructivism; analytical cubism also had
effect on deconstructivism, as forms and content are dissected and viewed from
different perspectives simultaneously; a synchronicity of disjoined space is evident
in many of the works of Frank Genry and Bernard Tschumi; it also often shares with
minimalism notions of conceptual art.
The Gymnasium by Josef Kiszka and Barbara Günter Domenig' s "Steinhaus" at Lake Ossiach,
Potysz, in Orlová, Czech Republic Austria
Seattle Central Library by
Rem Koolhaas and OMA
Jewish Museum, Berlin, Germany
Wal t Disney Concert Hall by Frank
Gehry, Los Angeles, California
Dan ci ng House by Vlado Mi lunić and
Frank Gehry, Prague, Czech Republic