About Deconstructivism

 Started in the 1980’s

 It views architecture in bits and pieces.
 Have no visual logic
 Buildings may appear to be made up of
abstract forms.
 More than we say free flow of forms
 Ideas were borrowed from the French
philosopher, Jacques Derrida.
Deconstructivism In Architecture
 Jacques derrida was a French philosopher. he
developed the critical theory known as
deconstruction and his work has been labeled
as post structuralism and associated with
postmodern philosophy.
 Deconstruction, which was also called “new
modern architecture” in its beginning. It was
meant to replace post modern architecture.
 The idea was to develop buildings which show
how differently from traditional architectural
conventions buildings can be built without
loosing their utility and still complying with the
fundamental laws of physics.
 Characteristics

 Explodes architectural form into loose collections of

related fragments.
 Destroys the dominance of the right angle and the
cube by using diagonal line.
 Rejects the idea of the ‘perfect form’ for a particular
activity and rejects the familiar relationshio between
certain forms and certain activities.
 Two strains of modern art minimalism and cubism,
have had an influence on deconstructivism.
 It also often shares with minimalism of notions of
conceptual art.
 Frank Gehry
 Frank Owen Gehry is a
canadian american architect.
 Frank gehry did very unique and
challenging work in his life.
 Mainly work in deconstructivism
and hi-tech architecture.
 He is legendry architect
because of his style of design
and different philosophy.
 Most of his project base on
deconstructivism for eg. Concert
hall, dancing house
 Experience Music Project
 Experience music
project and the science
fiction hall of fame are
two museums joined at
the hip. One hosts rock
memorabilia and music
and exhibitions and the
other does the same for
sci-fi.
 Fabricated steel frame
clad with shotcrete and
sheet metal panels.
 Much the building
material is exposed in
the building’s interior.
 Dancing House
 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.
 Also the winding moldings
on the façade it more
confusing perspective.
Diminishing the contrast
with the buildings that
surround it.
 Zaha Hadid
 Born October 31,1950
Baghdad, Iraq
 1972 she traveled to London
to study at the architectural
association, a major Centre
of progressive architectural
thought the 1970s.
 Using light, volumes, sharp,
angular forms, the play of
light and the integration of
the buildings with the
landscape.
 Integrated into their
architectural designs using
spiral forms.
 Maxxi Museum
 Maxxi (national museum of 21st
century art)
 The museum became the jiont
home of the maxxi arts and maxxi
architecture and Italy's first national
museum solely dedicated to
contemporary arts. The building is a
composition of bending oblong
tubes, overlapping, intersecting and
piling over each other, resembling a
piece of massive transport
infrastructure.
 It acts as a tie between the
geometrical elements already
present.
 The building absorbs the landscape
structures, dynamizes them and
gives them back to the urban
environment.
 Nordpark Cable Railway
 In the project there are four
stations
 The concepts of “shell and
shadow” generate each
station’s spatial quality
 The fluid shapes and soft
contours give the appearance
of glacier movements.
 New production methods like
cnc milling and thermoforming
allow computer generated
designs to be made into
buildings structure.
 Parts of the building look like
cars,aeroplane wings, yachts.
Large cantilevers and small
touch down areas give a
floating appearance to the
shells.