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From: gsd94hp1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Howard Park)
Subject: Re: DECONSTRUCTIVISM anyone?
Date: 13 Feb 1994 03:48:32 GMT
It is a mistake to represent Frank Gehry as a central figure in the
Deconstructivist movement. Gehry is indisputably one of the best-known
architects working today, but he is not (as Mr. Cullen suggests) the
Deconstructivist figurehead. That uncertain honor goes to Peter Eisenman.
Other architects working within the ideology of Deconstructivism include
Bernard Tschumi, Peter Cook, Zaha Hadid, and Daniel Libeskind. In
_Violated_Perfection:__Architecture_and_the_Fragmentation_of_the_Modern_,
Aaron Betsky described Eisenman as ". . . the leader of a large group that
wishes to feed the data produced by processes of modernization back into the
system, hoping that these representational feedback loops will foreground
self-destruction. Other than the fact that such a process leads to the death
of architecture, of architects, of selves, the result is not clear." Critical
writing on the subject (including Betsky's) is even less clear, but the upshot
of the movement is formal manipulation carried out in the name of "textual
analysis." The defining character of Deconstructivism is hard to verbalize
but easy to show in drawings. Many key projects can be found in the A.D.
Monographs _What_Is_Deconstruction?_, _Deconstruction_I_, and _Deconstruction
II_. I know of no introductory texts that are written in a language
comprehensible by non-Deconstructivists.
From: gsd94hp1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Howard Park)
Subject: Re: DECONSTRUCTIVISM anyone?
Date: 13 Feb 1994 03:48:32 GMT
It is a mistake to represent Frank Gehry as a central figure in the
Deconstructivist movement. Gehry is indisputably one of the best-known
architects working today, but he is not (as Mr. Cullen suggests) the
Deconstructivist figurehead. That uncertain honor goes to Peter Eisenman.
Other architects working within the ideology of Deconstructivism include
Bernard Tschumi, Peter Cook, Zaha Hadid, and Daniel Libeskind. In
_Violated_Perfection:__Architecture_and_the_Fragmentation_of_the_Modern_,
Aaron Betsky described Eisenman as ". . . the leader of a large group that
wishes to feed the data produced by processes of modernization back into the
system, hoping that these representational feedback loops will foreground
self-destruction. Other than the fact that such a process leads to the death
of architecture, of architects, of selves, the result is not clear." Critical
writing on the subject (including Betsky's) is even less clear, but the upshot
of the movement is formal manipulation carried out in the name of "textual
analysis." The defining character of Deconstructivism is hard to verbalize
but easy to show in drawings. Many key projects can be found in the A.D.
Monographs _What_Is_Deconstruction?_, _Deconstruction_I_, and _Deconstruction
II_. I know of no introductory texts that are written in a language
comprehensible by non-Deconstructivists.