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 deconstructivism.
•It also often shares with minimalism notions of conceptual art.
4. Zaha Mohammad 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.
• National Museum of contemporary arts and architecture.
• The concrete walls that define the exhibition galleries and determine
the interweaving of volumes.
• The transparent roof that modulates natural lights.
6. BRIDGE PAVILION, ZARAGOZA, SPAIN
• 280-metre-long (919 ft)
• Imitates a gladiola over the river ebro
• USE fibre glass reinforced concrete to envelope the bridge
• Outer skin of the building with 29,000 triangles of fibrec in different shades of grey.
7. MAGGIE’S CENTRE, KIRKCALDY, FIFE.
• Clear and translucent glass, with powerfully sculptural cantilevers.
• Entrance facade is almost entirely made from glass.
• North:the roof extension protects the entrance.
• South: it provides shade.
8. CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER (CAC), OHIO, US.
• The CAC is a non-collecting museum that focuses on new developments in
painting, sculpture, photography, architecture, performance art 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 exterior of the building were intended to appear
random
• The randomness of the curves are designed to catch the light.
• Nicknamed : The Flower
11. WALT DISNEY CONCERT HALL, CALIFORNIA.
• The original designed stone exterior was replaced with a less costly
metal skin.
• The founders room and children’s amphitheatre were designed with
highly polished mirror-like panels.
12. WEISMAN ART MUSEUM, MINNESOTA
• Campus side: it presents a brick facade that blends with the existing brick
and sandstone buildings.
• Opposite side: the museum is a playground of curving and angular brushed
steel sheets. This side is an abstraction of a waterfall and a fish.
13. DANCING HOUSE, PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC.
• “New aroque” to the designers
• The “dancing ” shape is supported by 99 concrete panels, each a different shape and
dimension.
• On the top of the building is a large twisted structure of metal nicknamed medusa.
20. SEATTLE CENTRAL LIBRARY
• The library has a unique, striking appearance, consisting of
several discrete "floating platforms" seemingly wrapped in a
large steel net around glass skin.
