“ When we deconstruct anything, we simply do not destroy, dissolve or cancel the legitimacy of what we will be constructing ”. -Jacques Derrida- ABSTRACT Then, what is the 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, P yramid & sphere) in order to recombine it in a new hybrid shapes. INTRODUCTION - What? INTRODUCTION PHILOSOPHY HISTORICAL BACKGROUND CHARACTERISTICS CRITIQUES
Deconstructivism rejected the postmodern acceptance of the historical references, as well as the idea of ornament as an after-thought or decoration. INTRODUCTION - Why? INTRODUCTION PHILOSOPHY HISTORICAL BACKGROUND CHARACTERISTICS CRITIQUES
Deconstructivism attempts to move away from the supposedly constricting 'rules' of modernism such as: INTRODUCTION - Goals INTRODUCTION PHILOSOPHY HISTORICAL BACKGROUND CHARACTERISTICS CRITIQUES Truth to materials Purity of form form follows function
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND INTRODUCTION PHILOSOPHY HISTORICAL BACKGROUND CHARACTERISTICS CRITIQUES 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 INTRODUCTION PHILOSOPHY HISTORICAL BACKGROUND CHARACTERISTICS CRITIQUES The Museum of Modern Art’s ( MoMA ) 1988 Deconstructivist Architecture exhibition in New York, organized by Philip Johnson and Mark Wigley . Philip Johnson Mark Wigley
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND INTRODUCTION PHILOSOPHY HISTORICAL BACKGROUND CHARACTERISTICS CRITIQUES and the 1989 opening of the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, designed by Peter Eisenman .
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND INTRODUCTION PHILOSOPHY HISTORICAL BACKGROUND CHARACTERISTICS CRITIQUES The New York exhibition featured works by Frank Gehry , Daniel Libeskind , Rem Koolhaas , Peter Eisenman , Zaha Hadid , Coop Himmelb (l)au, and Bernard Tschumi .
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND INTRODUCTION PHILOSOPHY HISTORICAL BACKGROUND CHARACTERISTICS CRITIQUES 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 .
Deconstruction is a literary theory and philosophy of language derived principally from Jacques Derrida's 1967 work Of Grammatology . PHILOSOPHY HISTORICAL BACKGROUND CHARACTERISTICS CRITIQUES INTRODUCTION PHILOSOPHY
Analyze Describe the clearest explanation on Derrida’s thinking, which I also found to be notoriously difficult. it’s fundamental to Derrida’s extraordinary view of the world that nothing has much meaning anyway. That’s 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. PHILOSOPHY HISTORICAL BACKGROUND CHARACTERISTICS CRITIQUES INTRODUCTION 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 author’s 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: PHILOSOPHY HISTORICAL BACKGROUND CHARACTERISTICS CRITIQUES INTRODUCTION 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". PHILOSOPHY HISTORICAL BACKGROUND CHARACTERISTICS CRITIQUES INTRODUCTION PHILOSOPHY 1. Metaphysics
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. PHILOSOPHY HISTORICAL BACKGROUND CHARACTERISTICS CRITIQUES INTRODUCTION PHILOSOPHY Absolute knowledge Absolutes in Architecture
PHILOSOPHY HISTORICAL BACKGROUND CHARACTERISTICS CRITIQUES INTRODUCTION 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 Corbusier’s, Wright’s and others (in architecture) to find such absolutes are doomed to failure. Church of the year 2000, Rome by Eisenman . (Deconstruction itself rejects the existence of God)
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. PHILOSOPHY HISTORICAL BACKGROUND CHARACTERISTICS CRITIQUES INTRODUCTION PHILOSOPHY 2. Clarity
“ 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. PHILOSOPHY HISTORICAL BACKGROUND CHARACTERISTICS CRITIQUES INTRODUCTION PHILOSOPHY
PHILOSOPHY HISTORICAL BACKGROUND CHARACTERISTICS CRITIQUES INTRODUCTION 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". Outside of a building should not be molded according to its inside logic
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". PHILOSOPHY HISTORICAL BACKGROUND CHARACTERISTICS CRITIQUES INTRODUCTION PHILOSOPHY 3. Logocentrism
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. PHILOSOPHY HISTORICAL BACKGROUND CHARACTERISTICS CRITIQUES INTRODUCTION PHILOSOPHY Word / Building Single Meaning
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. PHILOSOPHY HISTORICAL BACKGROUND CHARACTERISTICS CRITIQUES INTRODUCTION PHILOSOPHY Tower of Babel
PHILOSOPHY HISTORICAL BACKGROUND CHARACTERISTICS CRITIQUES INTRODUCTION 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.
Meaning: “ Syntagmatic / Associative” ,“Signifier / Signified” Saussure, like many others before him, tended to think in pairs, or "binary oppositions". PHILOSOPHY HISTORICAL BACKGROUND CHARACTERISTICS CRITIQUES INTRODUCTION PHILOSOPHY 4. Meaning
The denial of meaning from Derrida was taken by Deconstructivist architects and translated as an architecture of pure "syntax" without any "semantic" meaning. PHILOSOPHY HISTORICAL BACKGROUND CHARACTERISTICS CRITIQUES INTRODUCTION PHILOSOPHY 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
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." PHILOSOPHY HISTORICAL BACKGROUND CHARACTERISTICS CRITIQUES INTRODUCTION PHILOSOPHY 5. Feelings
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. PHILOSOPHY HISTORICAL BACKGROUND CHARACTERISTICS CRITIQUES INTRODUCTION PHILOSOPHY 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
DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS - Common PHILOSOPHY HISTORICAL BACKGROUND CRITIQUES INTRODUCTION CHARACTERISTICS No physically pure basic volume. Fragmented Mass. New Material (Metals, Glass, Concrete). Complicated Structure, and thus advanced structural systems. Relatively high V oid percentage. Open Plan. Distinguishing from Context.
DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS - Layering PHILOSOPHY HISTORICAL BACKGROUND CRITIQUES INTRODUCTION CHARACTERISTICS Definition : essentially based on fragmenting pure basic Volumes into vertical & horizontal Planes which create different layers.
DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS - Layering PHILOSOPHY HISTORICAL BACKGROUND CRITIQUES INTRODUCTION CHARACTERISTICS Notable Architects : Richard Meier Nationality : American. Born : 1934. Qualifications : BCS of Architecture degree from Cornell University.
DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS - Layering PHILOSOPHY HISTORICAL BACKGROUND CRITIQUES INTRODUCTION CHARACTERISTICS Lines : Straight parallel lines & Arch. The Getty Center - California, USA Richard Meier
DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS - Layering PHILOSOPHY HISTORICAL BACKGROUND CRITIQUES INTRODUCTION CHARACTERISTICS Corners : Right Angle. The Getty Center - California, USA Richard Meier
DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS - Layering PHILOSOPHY HISTORICAL BACKGROUND CRITIQUES INTRODUCTION CHARACTERISTICS Appearance of Original Basic Volumes : Still visually. The Getty Center - California, USA Richard Meier
DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS - Layering PHILOSOPHY HISTORICAL BACKGROUND CRITIQUES INTRODUCTION CHARACTERISTICS Articulation : through relation between layers & Masses. The Getty Center - California, USA Richard Meier
DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS - Layering PHILOSOPHY HISTORICAL BACKGROUND CRITIQUES INTRODUCTION CHARACTERISTICS Openings : by Subtraction & Addition. The Getty Center - California, USA Richard Meier
DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS - Layering PHILOSOPHY HISTORICAL BACKGROUND CRITIQUES INTRODUCTION CHARACTERISTICS Burda Museum, Baden-Baden, Germany Richard Meier
DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS - Layering PHILOSOPHY HISTORICAL BACKGROUND CRITIQUES INTRODUCTION CHARACTERISTICS International Center for Possibility Thinking - California, USA Richard Meier
DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS - Layering PHILOSOPHY HISTORICAL BACKGROUND CRITIQUES INTRODUCTION CHARACTERISTICS House III - Connecticut, USA Peter Eisenman
DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS - Layering PHILOSOPHY HISTORICAL BACKGROUND CRITIQUES INTRODUCTION CHARACTERISTICS Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art - Ohio, USA Richard Meier
DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS - Layering PHILOSOPHY HISTORICAL BACKGROUND CRITIQUES INTRODUCTION CHARACTERISTICS Church of 2000 - Rome, Italy Richard Meier
DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS - Angular PHILOSOPHY HISTORICAL BACKGROUND CRITIQUES INTRODUCTION CHARACTERISTICS Definition : essentially consists of complicated composition of hybrid volumes with Acute angles.
DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS - Angular PHILOSOPHY HISTORICAL BACKGROUND CRITIQUES INTRODUCTION CHARACTERISTICS Notable Architects : Daniel Libeskind Nationality : American. Born : 1946. Qualifications : BCS of Architecture degree from University of Essex.
DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS - Angular PHILOSOPHY HISTORICAL BACKGROUND CRITIQUES INTRODUCTION CHARACTERISTICS Lines : Almost Straight N on-parallel lines . Daniel Libeskind DENVER ART MUSEUM- Colorado , USA
DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS - Angular PHILOSOPHY HISTORICAL BACKGROUND CRITIQUES INTRODUCTION CHARACTERISTICS Corners : Acute angles. Daniel Libeskind DENVER ART MUSEUM- Colorado , USA
DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS - Angular PHILOSOPHY HISTORICAL BACKGROUND CRITIQUES INTRODUCTION CHARACTERISTICS Appearance of Original Basic Volumes : D isappear. Daniel Libeskind DENVER ART MUSEUM- Colorado , USA
DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS - Angular PHILOSOPHY HISTORICAL BACKGROUND CRITIQUES INTRODUCTION CHARACTERISTICS Articulation : through relation between Masses. Daniel Libeskind DENVER ART MUSEUM- Colorado , USA
DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS - Angular PHILOSOPHY HISTORICAL BACKGROUND CRITIQUES INTRODUCTION CHARACTERISTICS Openings : Mainly by Subtraction . Daniel Libeskind DENVER ART MUSEUM- Colorado , USA
DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS - Angular PHILOSOPHY HISTORICAL BACKGROUND CRITIQUES INTRODUCTION CHARACTERISTICS Daniel Libeskind PALAZZO DELL’EDILIZIA OF ALESSANDRIA, Alessandria , Italy
DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS - Angular PHILOSOPHY HISTORICAL BACKGROUND CRITIQUES INTRODUCTION CHARACTERISTICS Daniel Libeskind ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM Toronto, Canada
DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS - Angular PHILOSOPHY HISTORICAL BACKGROUND CRITIQUES INTRODUCTION CHARACTERISTICS Daniel Libeskind The Villa - Libeskind Signature Series
DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS - Angular PHILOSOPHY HISTORICAL BACKGROUND CRITIQUES INTRODUCTION CHARACTERISTICS OMA CCTV Headquarters- Beijing, China
DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS - Angular PHILOSOPHY HISTORICAL BACKGROUND CRITIQUES INTRODUCTION CHARACTERISTICS Terry Farrell The Deep Aquarium- Hull, UK
DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS - Chaos PHILOSOPHY HISTORICAL BACKGROUND CRITIQUES INTRODUCTION CHARACTERISTICS Definition : essentially consists of complicated composition of hybrid volumes with wide variety of lines & angles .
DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS - Chaos PHILOSOPHY HISTORICAL BACKGROUND CRITIQUES INTRODUCTION CHARACTERISTICS Notable Architects : Frank Gehry Nationality : Canadian-American. Born : 1929. Qualifications : BCS of Architecture degrees from University of Southern California.
DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS - Chaos PHILOSOPHY HISTORICAL BACKGROUND CRITIQUES INTRODUCTION CHARACTERISTICS Lines : Both Straight & Curvy lines. Frank Gehry Guggenheim Museum- bilbao , Spain
DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS - Chaos PHILOSOPHY HISTORICAL BACKGROUND CRITIQUES INTRODUCTION CHARACTERISTICS Corners : B oth Right &Acute angles & curves. Frank Gehry Guggenheim Museum- bilbao , Spain
DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS - Chaos PHILOSOPHY HISTORICAL BACKGROUND CRITIQUES INTRODUCTION CHARACTERISTICS Frank Gehry Guggenheim Museum- bilbao , Spain Appearance of Original Basic Volumes : Disappear.
DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS - Chaos PHILOSOPHY HISTORICAL BACKGROUND CRITIQUES INTRODUCTION CHARACTERISTICS Articulation : through relation between Masses. Frank Gehry Guggenheim Museum- bilbao , Spain
DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS - Chaos PHILOSOPHY HISTORICAL BACKGROUND CRITIQUES INTRODUCTION CHARACTERISTICS Openings : by Subtraction & Addition . Frank Gehry Guggenheim Museum- bilbao , Spain
DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS - Chaos PHILOSOPHY HISTORICAL BACKGROUND CRITIQUES INTRODUCTION CHARACTERISTICS Frank Gehry Vitra Design Museum and Factory- Weil am Rhein , Germany
DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS - Chaos PHILOSOPHY HISTORICAL BACKGROUND CRITIQUES INTRODUCTION CHARACTERISTICS Frank Gehry The Lou Ruvo Brain Institute- Nevada, USA
DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS - Chaos PHILOSOPHY HISTORICAL BACKGROUND CRITIQUES INTRODUCTION CHARACTERISTICS Frank Gehry Walt Disney Concert Hall- Los Angeles, USA
DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS - Chaos PHILOSOPHY HISTORICAL BACKGROUND CRITIQUES INTRODUCTION CHARACTERISTICS Vlado Milunić & Frank Gehry Walt Disney Concert Hall- Prague, Czech
DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS - Chaos PHILOSOPHY HISTORICAL BACKGROUND CRITIQUES INTRODUCTION CHARACTERISTICS The Hotel Marques de Riscal - Elciego , Spain Frank Gehry
DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS - Layering PHILOSOPHY HISTORICAL BACKGROUND CRITIQUES INTRODUCTION CHARACTERISTICS Other Notable Architects : 1. Peter Eisenman Nationality : American. Born : 1932. Qualifications : Ph.D. of Architecture degrees from the University of Cambridge.
DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS PHILOSOPHY HISTORICAL BACKGROUND CRITIQUES INTRODUCTION CHARACTERISTICS Other Notable Architects : 2. Bernard Tschumi Nationality : American. Born : 1944. Qualifications : BCS of Architecture degrees from ETH in Zurich.
DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS PHILOSOPHY HISTORICAL BACKGROUND CRITIQUES INTRODUCTION CHARACTERISTICS Other Notable Architects : 3. Wolf D. Prix (Coop Himmelblau ) Nationality : Austrian. Born : 1942. Qualifications : Ph.D. of Architecture degrees from Southern California Institute of Architecture.
DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS PHILOSOPHY HISTORICAL BACKGROUND CRITIQUES INTRODUCTION CHARACTERISTICS Other Notable Architects : 4. Helmut Swiczinsky (Coop Himmelblau ) Nationality : Polish. Born : 1944. Qualifications : BCS of Architecture degrees from Architectural Association in London.
DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS - Angular PHILOSOPHY HISTORICAL BACKGROUND CRITIQUES INTRODUCTION CHARACTERISTICS Notable Architects : 5. Rem Koolhaas Nationality : Dutch. Born : 1944. Qualifications : BCS of Architecture degrees from Architectural Association in London.
CRITIQUES PHILOSOPHY HISTORICAL BACKGROUND CRITIQUES INTRODUCTION CHARACTERISTICS 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.
CRITIQUES PHILOSOPHY HISTORICAL BACKGROUND CRITIQUES INTRODUCTION CHARACTERISTICS As 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.
CRITIQUES PHILOSOPHY HISTORICAL BACKGROUND CRITIQUES INTRODUCTION CHARACTERISTICS G eometric movement calling for the demolition of all the bases Engineering Alakulaidsah .
CRITIQUES PHILOSOPHY HISTORICAL BACKGROUND CRITIQUES INTRODUCTION CHARACTERISTICS C alls for the dismantling of facilities to the parts.
CRITIQUES PHILOSOPHY HISTORICAL BACKGROUND CRITIQUES INTRODUCTION CHARACTERISTICS Difficult to understand for the general public.
CRITIQUES PHILOSOPHY HISTORICAL BACKGROUND CRITIQUES INTRODUCTION CHARACTERISTICS work needs to be seen by reading about it. Wall house Theo Van Doesberg
CRITIQUES PHILOSOPHY HISTORICAL BACKGROUND CRITIQUES INTRODUCTION CHARACTERISTICS You need to understand a catalog of ideas.
CRITIQUES PHILOSOPHY HISTORICAL BACKGROUND CRITIQUES INTRODUCTION CHARACTERISTICS Building cracker and asymmetry and non-consistency.
Done by : Husam AlMuzainy Alaa Albdour Ali Athamneh Abdullah Odat Ahmad Sdoudi ARCHITECTURE Deconstruction