Deco

nstru

ction

ARCHITECTURE

ABSTRACT

When

we deconstruct anything, we simply do

not destroy, dissolve or cancel the legitimacy of
what we will be constructing.
-Jacques Derrida-

Then, what is the Deconstruction?

INDEX
1

INTRODUCTION

PHILOSOPHY

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS

CRITIQUES

INTRODUCTION

INTRODUCTION

PHILOSOPHY

HISTORICAL
BACKGROUND

CHARACTERISTICS

CRITIQUES

INTRODUCTION - What?

It is an architectural movement that began in the early 1980s.

It is influenced by the theory of "Deconstruction".

It is characterized by fragmentation, and interest in manipulating a structure's surface or

skin through transform the basic Volumes of architecture (Cube, Cuboid, Pyramid & sphere)
in order to recombine it in a new hybrid shapes.
Fragmentation

Basic Shape

INTRODUCTION

PHILOSOPHY

Recombining

Transformation

HISTORICAL
BACKGROUND

CHARACTERISTICS

CRITIQUES

INTRODUCTION - Why?

Deconstructivism rejected the postmodern acceptance of the historical

references, as well as the idea of ornament as an after-thought or decoration.

Postmodern

Modern

INTRODUCTION

PHILOSOPHY

Deconstruction

HISTORICAL
BACKGROUND

CHARACTERISTICS

CRITIQUES

INTRODUCTION - Goals

Deconstructivism attempts to move away from the supposedly constricting

'rules' of modernism such as:

form follows function

INTRODUCTION

PHILOSOPHY

Purity of form

HISTORICAL
BACKGROUND

CHARACTERISTICS

Truth to materials

CRITIQUES

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

INTRODUCTION

PHILOSOPHY

HISTORICAL
BACKGROUND

CHARACTERISTICS

CRITIQUES

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

Deconstructivism came to public notice with the 1982 Parc de la Villette

architectural design competition.

(especially the entry from Jacques Derrida and Peter Eisenman and Bernard
Tschumi's winning entry).

INTRODUCTION

PHILOSOPHY

HISTORICAL
BACKGROUND

CHARACTERISTICS

CRITIQUES

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

The Museum of Modern Arts (MoMA) 1988 Deconstructivist Architecture

exhibition in New York, organized by Philip Johnson and Mark Wigley.
Philip Johnson

Mark Wigley

INTRODUCTION

PHILOSOPHY

HISTORICAL
BACKGROUND

CHARACTERISTICS

CRITIQUES

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

and the 1989 opening of the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, designed by
Peter Eisenman.

INTRODUCTION

PHILOSOPHY

HISTORICAL
BACKGROUND

CHARACTERISTICS

CRITIQUES

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

The New York exhibition featured works by Frank Gehry, Daniel Libeskind, Rem
Koolhaas, Peter Eisenman, Zaha Hadid, Coop Himmelb(l)au, and Bernard
Tschumi.

INTRODUCTION

PHILOSOPHY

HISTORICAL
BACKGROUND

CHARACTERISTICS

CRITIQUES

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

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.

INTRODUCTION

PHILOSOPHY

HISTORICAL
BACKGROUND

CHARACTERISTICS

CRITIQUES

PHILOSOPHY

INTRODUCTION

PHILOSOPHY

HISTORICAL
BACKGROUND

CHARACTERISTICS

CRITIQUES

PHILOSOPHY

Deconstruction is a literary
theory and philosophy of
language derived principally
from Jacques Derrida's 1967
work Of Grammatology.

INTRODUCTION

PHILOSOPHY

HISTORICAL
BACKGROUND

CHARACTERISTICS

CRITIQUES

PHILOSOPHY

the clearest explanation on Derridas thinking, which I also found

to be notoriously difficult. its fundamental to Derridas
extraordinary view of the world that nothing has much meaning
anyway.

Thats why he struggles so hard not to communicate with us; he

actually intends it to be difficult for us to find out what he says, if
he has anything to say at all!

Many attempts to explain or to analyze Deconstruction have been

violently rebutted on the grounds that such approaches violate
the very nature of Deconstruction.

Its proponents insist that "it cannot be described and stated as

other positions can" because it is a new form of logic that has
superseded the old traditional logic in which such analyses are
couched.

INTRODUCTION

PHILOSOPHY

HISTORICAL
BACKGROUND

CHARACTERISTICS

CRITIQUES

Analyze
Describe

PHILOSOPHY

Derrida tends to work not so much by initiating ideas as by reacting, forcibly, to what
others have written already.

In each case Derrida aims to refute thinkers with arguments derived from the authors
own writings, to demonstrate -successfully in many cases- that the very premises on
which the authors base their cases will, if pursued to their logical conclusions, defeat the
original arguments.

Deconstruction, after all, is literally concerned -as Derrida insists- with written texts. His
attacks are especially focused on subjects such as:
Subjects

1. Metaphysics

INTRODUCTION

2. Clarity

3. Logocentrism

PHILOSOPHY

4. Meaning

HISTORICAL
BACKGROUND

5. Feelings

CHARACTERISTICS

6. Binary
Thinking

CRITIQUES

7. Phonocentrism

8. Palimpsest

PHILOSOPHY

Metaphysics is the age-old search for truth and the

essence of being that has been the center of
occidental Philosophy.
Derrida despises this search through the centuries
for the ultimate truth, for the reason of our existence
& the idea that there should be some kind of
"absolute knowledge", "prime mover" or "God".

1. Metaphysics
INTRODUCTION

PHILOSOPHY

HISTORICAL
BACKGROUND

CHARACTERISTICS

CRITIQUES

PHILOSOPHY

This is relevant to architecture in that, for Derrida, there is no

"one best way", no "International Style", no roots from which
all architecture has grown. So there are no received truths Classical, Modernist or other.

Absolutes
in
Architecture

Absolute
knowledge

INTRODUCTION

PHILOSOPHY

HISTORICAL
BACKGROUND

CHARACTERISTICS

CRITIQUES

PHILOSOPHY

To "deconstruct" at all -program,

form or structure- is to
demonstrate one's view that there
are no absolutes in architecture,
that attempts, such as
Heidegger's (in philosophy) or
Le Corbusiers, Wrights and
others (in architecture) to find
such absolutes are doomed to
failure.

INTRODUCTION

PHILOSOPHY

HISTORICAL
BACKGROUND

Church of the year 2000, Rome by Eisenman.

(Deconstruction itself rejects the existence
of God)

CHARACTERISTICS

CRITIQUES

PHILOSOPHY

Clarity in Structuralist predecessors is to write

simply, directly, clearly and unambiguously,
Derrida is part of the Post-Structurlist movement
that strongly reacted against the clarity.

2. Clarity
INTRODUCTION

PHILOSOPHY

HISTORICAL
BACKGROUND

CHARACTERISTICS

CRITIQUES

PHILOSOPHY

Ambiguous
INTRODUCTION

PHILOSOPHY

HISTORICAL
BACKGROUND

CHARACTERISTICS

CRITIQUES

PHILOSOPHY

It is my evident desire to insinuate my thoughts

into your brain, and thus colonize your mind! That
is why they write deliberately in such an unclear,
diffuse, incoherent and ambiguous way that will
get you so angry that, in your struggle to
understand, you will be forced into having your own
thoughts. -Broadbent-.
Deconstructivist architecture is ambiguous as a
Deconstructivist text, whereas clarity is what we see
when analyzing Modern architecture, simplicity in
its structure, coherence in its programme.

INTRODUCTION

PHILOSOPHY

HISTORICAL
BACKGROUND

CHARACTERISTICS

CRITIQUES

PHILOSOPHY

Robert Venturi, an exponent of

Post-Modernism, had
demonstrated a parallel kind of
thinking in architecture when in
"Complexity and Contradiction"
(1966) he attacked "Modernist
transparency".

INTRODUCTION

PHILOSOPHY

HISTORICAL
BACKGROUND

Outside of a building should not be molded

according to its inside logic

CHARACTERISTICS

CRITIQUES

PHILOSOPHY

Logocentrism: analyzing the structure of our

language -in believe that language is what allows us
to think- to unveil the structure of our thoughts and
thus arrive at those "ultimate truths".

3. Logocentrism
INTRODUCTION

PHILOSOPHY

HISTORICAL
BACKGROUND

CHARACTERISTICS

CRITIQUES

PHILOSOPHY

Derrida despises Logocentrism and even rejects any relationship

between a word and its meaning. That is why he uses words in any
way he pleases, and makes it so difficult for us to understand him.
He wants words (and presumably buildings) to literally have no
single meaning.

Word /
Building
INTRODUCTION

PHILOSOPHY

HISTORICAL
BACKGROUND

Single
Meaning
CHARACTERISTICS

CRITIQUES

PHILOSOPHY

He sees Deconstruction as
our attempt to recover from
the Tower of Babel! The
builders of the Tower
sought political domination
by imposing on the world
their universal language
and their universal
architecture, exactly as
Modern Architecture.
Tower of Babel

INTRODUCTION

PHILOSOPHY

HISTORICAL
BACKGROUND

CHARACTERISTICS

CRITIQUES

PHILOSOPHY
According to Derrida, our aim
should not have been to find
another "only absolute" view
but to seek a diversity of
views. This is a view clearly
contrary to that of Modernism.

Some architects took literally the notion of no single

meaning and tried to create buildings with no meaning
at all, organized according to pure geometric rules that
would convey no meaning.
INTRODUCTION

PHILOSOPHY

HISTORICAL
BACKGROUND

CHARACTERISTICS

CRITIQUES

PHILOSOPHY

Meaning: Syntagmatic / Associative ,Signifier /

Signified Saussure, like many others before him,
tended to think in pairs, or "binary oppositions".

4. Meaning
INTRODUCTION

PHILOSOPHY

HISTORICAL
BACKGROUND

CHARACTERISTICS

CRITIQUES

PHILOSOPHY
The denial of meaning from Derrida was taken by Deconstructivist
architects and translated as an architecture of pure "syntax" without
any "semantic" meaning.

Eisenman's aim when designing

most of his early buildings was this,
he used extremely pure, geometric
"syntaxes" with no semantic
references of the kind we loosely
call "meaning".

Semantic architecture
INTRODUCTION

PHILOSOPHY

HISTORICAL
BACKGROUND

CHARACTERISTICS

CRITIQUES

PHILOSOPHY

Peter Eisenman says: "People have been concerned with

relating themselves to their physical environment as a
source of security. I believe that if the physical
environment makes them anxious they might turn inward
and the true source of security is internal. The physical
environment can never provide that, it can provide
physical comfort, shelter, but it can never provide
psychological shelter."

5. Feelings
INTRODUCTION

PHILOSOPHY

HISTORICAL
BACKGROUND

CHARACTERISTICS

CRITIQUES

PHILOSOPHY
When it comes to Eisenman buildings, he creates a really disturbing
spacing completely dislocated and every time you don't know
where you are, or at what level you are, you never know.

For Heinrich Klotz, Deconstruction

is "an indication of how we perceive
our lives today and a good part of it
is the uncertainty we feel".

Eisenman is concerned in causing an

uncertainty in people
INTRODUCTION

PHILOSOPHY

HISTORICAL
BACKGROUND

CHARACTERISTICS

CRITIQUES

DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS

INTRODUCTION

PHILOSOPHY

HISTORICAL
BACKGROUND

CHARACTERISTICS

CRITIQUES

DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS - Classification

INTRODUCTION

PHILOSOPHY

HISTORICAL
BACKGROUND

CHARACTERISTICS

CRITIQUES

DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS - Common

No

physically pure basic volume.

Fragmented Mass.
New Material (Metals, Glass, Concrete).
Complicated Structure, and thus advanced structural systems.
Relatively high Void percentage.
Open Plan.
Distinguishing from Context.

INTRODUCTION

PHILOSOPHY

HISTORICAL
BACKGROUND

CHARACTERISTICS

CRITIQUES

DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS - Layering

INTRODUCTION

PHILOSOPHY

HISTORICAL
BACKGROUND

CHARACTERISTICS

CRITIQUES

DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS - Layering

Definition:

essentially based on
fragmenting pure basic Volumes into
vertical & horizontal Planes which
create different layers.

INTRODUCTION

PHILOSOPHY

HISTORICAL
BACKGROUND

CHARACTERISTICS

CRITIQUES

DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS - Layering

Notable Architects:

Nationality: American.

Born: 1934.

Qualifications: BCS of Architecture

degree from Cornell University.

Richard Meier
INTRODUCTION

PHILOSOPHY

HISTORICAL
BACKGROUND

CHARACTERISTICS

CRITIQUES

Ge
The
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tty C

DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS - Layering

nter

PHILOSOPHY

HISTORICAL
BACKGROUND

CHARACTERISTICS

CRITIQUES

ar d
Ri
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INTRODUCTION

M
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, USA
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Calif

Lines: Straight parallel lines & Arch.

Ge
The
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tty C

DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS - Layering

nter

PHILOSOPHY

HISTORICAL
BACKGROUND

CHARACTERISTICS

CRITIQUES

ar d
Ri
ch

INTRODUCTION

M
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, USA
ornia
Calif

Corners: Right Angle.

Ge
The
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tty C

DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS - Layering

nter

PHILOSOPHY

HISTORICAL
BACKGROUND

CHARACTERISTICS

CRITIQUES

ar d
Ri
ch

INTRODUCTION

M
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, USA
ornia
Calif

Appearance of Original Basic Volumes: Still visually.

Ge
The
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tty C

DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS - Layering

nter

PHILOSOPHY

HISTORICAL
BACKGROUND

CHARACTERISTICS

CRITIQUES

ar d
Ri
ch

INTRODUCTION

M
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, USA
ornia
Calif

Articulation: through relation between layers & Masses.

Ge
The
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tty C

DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS - Layering

nter

PHILOSOPHY

HISTORICAL
BACKGROUND

CHARACTERISTICS

CRITIQUES

ar d
Ri
ch

INTRODUCTION

M
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, USA
ornia
Calif

Openings: by Subtraction & Addition.

Burd
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DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS - Layering

,
seum
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Bade
-Bad
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PHILOSOPHY

HISTORICAL
BACKGROUND

CHARACTERISTICS

CRITIQUES

Ri
ch

ar d

M
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y
rman

INTRODUCTION

INTRODUCTION

PHILOSOPHY

HISTORICAL
BACKGROUND

CHARACTERISTICS

CRITIQUES

Ri
ch

ar d

M
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ility
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for P
enter
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natio
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Inter ing - Cali
k
Thin

DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS - Layering

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DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS - Layering

necti
- Con

PHILOSOPHY

HISTORICAL
BACKGROUND

CHARACTERISTICS

CRITIQUES

Pe
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nm
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SA
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INTRODUCTION

INTRODUCTION

PHILOSOPHY

HISTORICAL
BACKGROUND

CHARACTERISTICS

CRITIQUES

Ri
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M
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A
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DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS - Layering

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Chur

DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS - Layering

2000
e, Ita
- Rom

PHILOSOPHY

HISTORICAL
BACKGROUND

CHARACTERISTICS

CRITIQUES

Ri
ch

ar d

M
ei e

ly

INTRODUCTION

DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS - Angular

INTRODUCTION

PHILOSOPHY

HISTORICAL
BACKGROUND

CHARACTERISTICS

CRITIQUES

DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS - Angular

Definition:

essentially consists of
complicated composition of hybrid
volumes with Acute angles.

INTRODUCTION

PHILOSOPHY

HISTORICAL
BACKGROUND

CHARACTERISTICS

CRITIQUES

DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS - Angular

Notable Architects:

Nationality: American.

Born: 1946.

Qualifications: BCS of Architecture

degree from University of Essex.

Daniel Libeskind
INTRODUCTION

PHILOSOPHY

HISTORICAL
BACKGROUND

CHARACTERISTICS

CRITIQUES

INTRODUCTION

PHILOSOPHY

HISTORICAL
BACKGROUND

CHARACTERISTICS

CRITIQUES

Li
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Lines: Almost Straight Non-parallel lines.

be

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MUS
ART
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DEN
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Colo

DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS - Angular

INTRODUCTION

PHILOSOPHY

HISTORICAL
BACKGROUND

CHARACTERISTICS

CRITIQUES

Li
Da
n

i el

Corners: Acute angles.

be

sk

i nd

EUM
MUS
ART
VER SA
DEN
U
rado,
Colo

DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS - Angular

INTRODUCTION

PHILOSOPHY

HISTORICAL
BACKGROUND

CHARACTERISTICS

CRITIQUES

Li
Da
n

i el

Appearance of Original Basic Volumes: Disappear.

be

sk

i nd

EUM
MUS
ART
VER SA
DEN
U
rado,
Colo

DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS - Angular

INTRODUCTION

PHILOSOPHY

HISTORICAL
BACKGROUND

CHARACTERISTICS

CRITIQUES

Li
i el
Da
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Articulation: through relation between Masses.

be

sk

i nd

EUM
MUS
ART
VER SA
DEN
U
rado,
Colo

DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS - Angular

INTRODUCTION

PHILOSOPHY

HISTORICAL
BACKGROUND

CHARACTERISTICS

CRITIQUES

Li
i el
Da
n

Openings: Mainly by Subtraction .

be

sk

i nd

EUM
MUS
ART
VER SA
DEN
U
rado,
Colo

DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS - Angular

INTRODUCTION

PHILOSOPHY

HISTORICAL
BACKGROUND

CHARACTERISTICS

CRITIQUES

Da
n

i el

Li

be

sk

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F
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DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS - Angular

M
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Toro

DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS - Angular

PHILOSOPHY

HISTORICAL
BACKGROUND

CHARACTERISTICS

CRITIQUES

Da
n

i el

Li

be

sk

i nd

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USE

INTRODUCTION

Villa
The s
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Seri

DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS - Angular

s
Libe
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a
Sign

PHILOSOPHY

HISTORICAL
BACKGROUND

CHARACTERISTICS

CRITIQUES

Da
n

i el

Li

be

sk

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INTRODUCTION

V
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Chin
arte
dqu
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DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS - Angular

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INTRODUCTION

PHILOSOPHY

HISTORICAL
BACKGROUND

CHARACTERISTICS

CRITIQUES

Deep
The

DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS - Angular

mariu
Aqu
Te
rry

Fa
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e ll

, UK
Hull

INTRODUCTION

PHILOSOPHY

HISTORICAL
BACKGROUND

CHARACTERISTICS

CRITIQUES

DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS - Organic

INTRODUCTION

PHILOSOPHY

HISTORICAL
BACKGROUND

CHARACTERISTICS

CRITIQUES

DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS - Organic

Definition:

essentially consists of
complicated sculptured volumes
with curvy lines.

INTRODUCTION

PHILOSOPHY

HISTORICAL
BACKGROUND

CHARACTERISTICS

CRITIQUES

DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS - Organic

Notable Architects:

Nationality: Iraqi-British.

Born: 1950.

Qualifications: BCS of Architecture degrees

from Architectural Association in London.

Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid

INTRODUCTION

PHILOSOPHY

HISTORICAL
BACKGROUND

CHARACTERISTICS

CRITIQUES

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Cent
iyev
ar Al
He y d
n
baija
Azer

DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS - Organic

PHILOSOPHY

HISTORICAL
BACKGROUND

CHARACTERISTICS

CRITIQUES

Za
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INTRODUCTION

aH
ad

id

u,

Lines: Curvy lines.

ak
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Cent
iyev
ar Al
He y d
n
baija
Azer

DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS - Organic

PHILOSOPHY

HISTORICAL
BACKGROUND

CHARACTERISTICS

CRITIQUES

Za
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INTRODUCTION

aH
ad

id

u,

Corners: Almost No Corners but curves.

DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS - Organic

Appearance of Original Basic Volumes: Disappear.

INTRODUCTION

PHILOSOPHY

HISTORICAL
BACKGROUND

CHARACTERISTICS

CRITIQUES

ak
er- B
Cent
iyev
ar Al
He y d
n
baija
Azer

DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS - Organic

PHILOSOPHY

HISTORICAL
BACKGROUND

CHARACTERISTICS

CRITIQUES

Za
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INTRODUCTION

aH
ad

id

u,

Articulation: sculpturing.

ak
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Cent
iyev
ar Al
He y d
n
baija
Azer

DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS - Organic

PHILOSOPHY

HISTORICAL
BACKGROUND

CHARACTERISTICS

CRITIQUES

Za
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INTRODUCTION

aH
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Openings: Mainly by Subtraction.

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Desig
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DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS - Organic

Ho
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PHILOSOPHY

HISTORICAL
BACKGROUND

Ro
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Holo

INTRODUCTION

CHARACTERISTICS

CRITIQUES

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DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS - Organic

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PHILOSOPHY

HISTORICAL
BACKGROUND

CHARACTERISTICS

CRITIQUES

Za
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aH
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INTRODUCTION

el
Chap
faith
Inter
SA
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DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS - Organic

osal
Prop

PHILOSOPHY

HISTORICAL
BACKGROUND

CHARACTERISTICS

CRITIQUES

Br
Ar ook
ch s +
it e
c t s S ca
rpa

INTRODUCTION

nni
n Pla
Dalia
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DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS - Organic

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PHILOSOPHY

10
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INTRODUCTION

HISTORICAL
BACKGROUND

CHARACTERISTICS

CRITIQUES

Gala
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DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS - Organic

ho hi
ng, C
Beiji

PHILOSOPHY

Za
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aH
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INTRODUCTION

HISTORICAL
BACKGROUND

CHARACTERISTICS

CRITIQUES

DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS - Chaos

INTRODUCTION

PHILOSOPHY

HISTORICAL
BACKGROUND

CHARACTERISTICS

CRITIQUES

DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS - Chaos

Definition:

essentially consists of
complicated composition of hybrid
volumes with wide variety of lines &
angles.

INTRODUCTION

PHILOSOPHY

HISTORICAL
BACKGROUND

CHARACTERISTICS

CRITIQUES

DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS - Chaos

Notable Architects:

Nationality: Canadian-American.

Born: 1929.

Qualifications: BCS of Architecture degrees

from University of Southern California.

Frank Gehry
INTRODUCTION

PHILOSOPHY

HISTORICAL
BACKGROUND

CHARACTERISTICS

CRITIQUES

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Spain
M
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DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS - Chaos

m
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PHILOSOPHY

HISTORICAL
BACKGROUND

CHARACTERISTICS

CRITIQUES

Fr
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INTRODUCTION

kG
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ry

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Lines: Both Straight & Curvy lines.

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Gu g g
Spain
M
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DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS - Chaos

m
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PHILOSOPHY

HISTORICAL
BACKGROUND

CHARACTERISTICS

CRITIQUES

Fr
an

INTRODUCTION

kG
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ry

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Corners: Both Right &Acute angles & curves.

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Gu g g
Spain
M
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DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS - Chaos

m
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PHILOSOPHY

HISTORICAL
BACKGROUND

CHARACTERISTICS

CRITIQUES

Fr
an

INTRODUCTION

kG
eh

ry

a o,

Appearance of Original Basic Volumes: Disappear.

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Gu g g
Spain
M
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DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS - Chaos

m
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PHILOSOPHY

HISTORICAL
BACKGROUND

CHARACTERISTICS

CRITIQUES

Fr
an

INTRODUCTION

kG
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ry

a o,

Articulation: through relation between Masses.

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M
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DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS - Chaos

m
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PHILOSOPHY

HISTORICAL
BACKGROUND

CHARACTERISTICS

CRITIQUES

Fr
an

INTRODUCTION

kG
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ry

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Openings: by Subtraction & Addition.

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DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS - Chaos

ctory

PHILOSOPHY

HISTORICAL
BACKGROUND

CHARACTERISTICS

CRITIQUES

Fr
an

kG
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Other Notable Architects:

Nationality: American.

Born: 1932.

Qualifications: Ph.D. of Architecture degrees

from the University of Cambridge.

1. Peter Eisenman
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Other Notable Architects:

Nationality: American.

Born: 1944.

Qualifications: BCS of Architecture degrees

from ETH in Zurich.

2. Bernard Tschumi
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Other Notable Architects:

Nationality: Austrian.

Born: 1942.

Qualifications: Ph.D. of Architecture degrees from

Southern California Institute of Architecture.

3. Wolf D. Prix (Coop Himmelblau)

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Other Notable Architects:

Nationality: Polish.

Born: 1944.

Qualifications: BCS of Architecture degrees from

Architectural Association in London.

4. Helmut Swiczinsky (Coop Himmelblau)

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Notable Architects:

Nationality: Dutch.

Born: 1944.

Qualifications: BCS of Architecture degrees

from Architectural Association in London.

5. Rem Koolhaas
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Certainly

arrowheads directed to School of Architecture

deconstruction is ready, and the most important principle
of causality or function architecture, it is possible to
find a column in the dining room unnecessarily, or find a
weapon of iron and glass cutter roof of the building
without a cause functional convincing except for the art
form outside.

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well as the abandonment of the cultural heritage of

civilization, it approaches disassembly abandon motifs
and architectural elements and replace it with other
elements sharp and vehicle and shocking to the eye.

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Geometric

movement calling for the demolition of all the

bases Engineering Alakulaidsah.

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Calls

for the dismantling

of facilities to the parts.

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work

needs to be seen by reading about it.

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You

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