Contemporary Design (Deconstructivism)

Deconstructivism (deconstruction) in

architecture, a development of Post

Modernism that begin in late 1980’s. It is

characterized by the ideas of fragmentation

which serve to distort and dislocate some of

the elements of architecture like the structure

and the finished visual appearance of buildings

that exhibit the many deconstructivist ‘styles’

is characterized by a simulating unpredictability and a controlled chaos.

In 1982, a Parc de la Villette architectural

design competition organized by Philip

Johnson and Mark Wigley began the

Deconstructivism as the entry of Jacques

Derrida, Peter Eisenman and Bernard

Tschumi’s winning entry. 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.

The characteristic of Deconstrcutivism include architecture is exploded into loose

collections of related fragment; the used of diagonal line destroyed the dominance

of the right angle and cube; ideas and images of Russian Revolutionary architecture

and design is used; challenge familiar ideas about space, order and regularity in the

environment; ‘perfect form’ is rejected; two strains of modern art, minimalism and

cubism, have had an influence on deconstructivism; analytical cubism also had

effect on deconstructivism, as forms and content are dissected and viewed from

different perspectives simultaneously; a synchronicity of disjoined space is evident

in many of the works of Frank Genry and Bernard Tschumi; it also often shares with

minimalism notions of conceptual art.

The Gymnasium by Josef Kiszka and Barbara Günter Domenig' s "Steinhaus" at Lake Ossiach,

Potysz, in Orlová, Czech Republic Austria

Vitra Design Museum by Frank Gehry, Weil am

Rhein, Germany Seattle Central Library by Rem Koolhaas and OMA

Jewish Museum, Berlin, Germany

Walt Disney Concert Hall by Frank Gehry, Los Angeles, California

Dancing House by Vlado Milunić and Frank Gehry, Prague, Czech Republic