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ARCHITECTURE

Theory of Architecture

• Fourth Stage

• Architecture Engineering Department

What is Deconstruction?

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 Recombining

Basic Shape Transformation

what is deconstructivist architecture?• It’s about fragmentation—challenging the idea of what a building or structure

even is.• So, late 20thcentury architects like Daniel Libeskind, Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid,

Peter Eisenman, and company tried to make buildings • sway and wave like they’re being blown around by the wind.• make them bend.• make them interact.• make them human.• make them disrupt the system.• change the landscape, change cities, and change lives.• make weird looking windows and build staircases to nowhere.• Besides fragmentation, Deconstructivism often manipulates the structure's

surface skin and creates by non-rectilinearshapes which appear to distort and dislocate elements of architecture (structure and envelope). The finished visual appearance is characterized by unpredictability and controlled chaos.

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).

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

The Museum of ModernArt’s (MoMA) 1988 Deconstructivist Architecture

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

Philip Johnson

Mark Wigley

PHILOSOPHY

Deconstruction is a literary

theory and philosophy of

language derived principally

from Jacques Derrida's 1967

work Of Grammatology.

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.

The denial of meaning from Derrida was taken by Deconstructivist

architects and translated as an architecture

any "semantic" meaning.

of pure "syntax" without

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

PHILOSOPHY

DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS - Common

No physically pure basic volume.

Fragmented Mass.

New Material (Metals, Glass, Concrete).

Complicated Structure, and thus advanced

Relatively high Void percentage.

Open Plan.

Distinguishing from Context.

structural systems.

DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS - Layering

Definition: essentially based on

fragmenting pure basic Volumes into

vertical & horizontal Planes which

create different layers.



DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS - Layering

DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS - Angular

Definition: essentially consists of

complicated composition of hybrid

volumes withAcute angles.



DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS - Angular

DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS - Organic


complicated sculptured

with curvy lines.

volumes



DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS - Organic

DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS - Chaos


complicated composition of hybrid

volumes

angles.

with wide variety of lines &



DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS - Chaos

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