Deconstructivism is an architectural movement that began in the late 1980s that is characterized by fragmentation and unpredictability. It rejects traditional notions of structure and form, instead using fragmentation and distortion. Some key figures in deconstructivism include Zaha Hadid, Frank Gehry, Daniel Libeskind, and Rem Koolhaas. They designed notable buildings using fragmented and irregular forms, such as Gehry's Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao and Libeskind's Jewish Museum in Berlin.

1. Deconstructivism
(ARCHITECTURE)
NAME :YEW J ING HUI
ID :2014050061
COURSE : INTERIOR DESIGN ( GROUP 1 )
PREPARED FOR : MR. GEORGE GRAY

2. INTRODUCTION
•“ A movement in architecture”
•Began in the late 1980s
•characterized by fragmentation
• finished visual appearance of buildings that exhibit deconstructivist
"styles" is characterized by unpredictability and controlled chaos.

3. Characteristics
•Explodes architectural form into loose collections of related fragments.
•Destroys the dominance of the right angles and the cube.
•Uses ideas and images from Russian.
•Provokes shocks, uncertainly, unease, disquiet, disruption, distortion by challenging familiar
ideas about space, order and regularity.
•Rejects the ideas of the ‘perfect form’ for a particular activity.
•Minimalism and Cubism have an influence on DE constructivism.
•It also often shares with minimalism notions of conceptual art.

4. ZahaMohammad Hadid
•Born : 31 October 1950
•Nationality : Iraq- British
•Buildings: Maxxi, Bridge Pavilion, Maggie’s Centre,
Contemporary Arts Center
• She grew up in one of Baghdad's first Bauhaus-inspired
buildings during an era in which "modernism connoted
glamour and progressive thinking" in the Middle East.

5. MAXXI , ROME, ITALY.
• Nat ional Museum of contemporary ar ts and archi tecture.
• The concrete wal ls that def ine the exhibi t ion gal ler ies and determine
the interweaving of volumes.
• The t ransparent roof that modulates natural l ights.

6. BRIDGE PAVILION, ZARAGOZA, SPAIN
• 280-met re- long (919 f t )
• Imi tates a gladiola over the r iver ebro
• USE f ibre glas s reinforced conc rete to envelope the br idge
• Outer skin of the bui lding wi th 29,000 t r iangles of f ibrec in di f ferent shades of grey.

7. MA G G I E ’ S C E N T R E , KIRKCALDY, FIFE.
• Clear and t rans lucent glas s , wi th power ful ly sculptural cant i levers .
• Ent rance facade i s almost ent i rely made f rom glass .
• Nor th: the roof ex tens ion protect s the ent rance.
• South: i t provides shade.

8. CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER (CAC) , OHIO, US.
• The CAC i s a non-col lect ing museum that focuses on new developments in
paint ing, sculpture, photography, archi tecture, per formance ar t and new
media.

9. Frank Owen Gehry
•Born : 28 February 1929
•Nationality : Canadian, American
•Practice : Gehry Partners , LLP
•Buildings : Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Walt Disney Concert Hall,
Weisman Art Museum, Dancing House, Emp Museum
•Mainly work in deconstructivism and Hi-tech architecture.
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10. GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM BILBAO, BILBAO, SPAIN
• The curves on the exter ior of the bui lding were intended to appear
random
• The randomness of the curves are designed to catch the l ight .
• Nicknamed : The Flower

11. WALT DISNEY CONCERT HALL, CALIFORNIA.
• The or iginal designed stone exter ior was replaced wi th a less cost ly
metal skin.
• T h e fo u n d e rs ro om a n d c h i l d re n ’s amp h i t h e at re we re d e s i g n e d w i t h
highly pol ished mi r ror - l ike panels.

12. WEISMAN ART MUSEUM, MINNESOTA
• Campus s ide: i t present s a br ick facade that blends wi th the exi st ing br ick
and sandstone bui ldings .
• Oppos i te s ide: the museum i s a playground of cur ving and angular brushed
steel sheet s . Thi s s ide i s an abst ract ion of a water fal l and a f i sh.

13. DANCING HOUSE, PRAGUE , CZECH REPUBL IC.
• “ N e w a roque” t o t h e d e s i g n e r s
• T h e “d a n c i n g ” s h a p e i s s u p p o r t e d b y 9 9 c o n c r e t e p a n e l s , e a c h a d i f f e r e n t s h a p e a n d
dimens ion.
• On the top of the bui lding i s a la rge twi s ted s t ruc ture of meta l ni c knamed medus a .

14. EMP MUSEUM

15. Daniel Libeskind
•Born : 12 May 1946
•Nationality : American-Polish
•Buildings: Jewish Museum Berlin,
Royal Ontario Museum

16. JEWISH MUSEUM BERLIN

17. ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM

18. Rem Koolhas
•Born : 17 November 1944
•Nationality : Dutch
•Buildings : Casa da Musica, Seattle Central Library

19. CASA DA MÚSICA, PORTUGAL
• Concert hall.

20. SEATTLE CENTRAL LIBRARY
• The library has a unique, striking appearance, consist ing of
several discrete "f loating plat forms" seemingly wrapped in a
large steel net around glass skin.

21. Others
ACROPOLIS MUSEUM, GREECE BY T-SCHUMI. (2009)

22. UFA PALAST, GERMANY BY COOP HIMMELB AKRON ART MUSEUM,OHIO,USA
(1998) (1922)

23. References
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deconstructivism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akron_Art_Museum
http://www.infoplease.com/encyclopedia/world/deconstructivism.html
http://www.yahoo.com/deconstructivism

24. Conclusion
Constructivism building use many of unique shape. That is
different from others building use the regular shapes such
as regular, rectangular and so on. These designers design
these building with their own idea. Some of them designer
design the building according some art work or design the
building that related with some history.

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