Maybe it is time someone explains to you the difference between
Deconstructivism and Deconstruction. Read Mark Wigley's _Derrida's Haunt_.
Good luck.
Mikesch
mwmuecke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
On Mon, 28 Feb 1994, Howard Ray Lawrence 814 238 9535 wrote:
> - - The original note follows - -
>
> From: st93ak5s@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Michael Cullen)
> Subject: Deconstructivism and the Russian avant garde
> Date: Mon, 28 Feb 1994 04:15:18 GMT
>
> To Howard Park and all:
> I have been doing some digging to bolster my opinions about
> Deconstructivism. I have found the following article which does agree with
> my theories about deconstructivism.
> >From H.W. Janson's "History of Art" :
> Historicism addresses only the decorative veneer of the International style
> but Deconstructivism, another tendency that has been gaining momentum since
> 1980, goes much farther in challenging its substance. It does so,
> paradoxically enough, by returning to one of the earliest sources of
> modernism: the Russian avant garde. (Gasp! It wasn't Eisenman?) The Russian
> experiment in architecture proved short lived, and few of its ideas ever
> made it beyond the laboratory stage.(Gasp! It was an aesthetic movement,
> that fostered today's Deconstructivists?) Recent architects, inspired by
> the bold sculpture of the Constructivists and the graphic designs of the
> Suprematists, seek to violate the integrity of modern architecture by
> subverting its internal structure, which the Russians themselves did little
> to undermine.( Oh no! It was a group of Russian painters, graphic artists
> and sculptors that inspired recent architects? I thought Howard said my
> points about other areas in artistic fields that Deconstructivism affected
> were irrelevant to architecture?)
> Here's the real shocker: Although Deconstructivist designs have won major
> awards, their experimental approach and ambitious scale have discouraged
> their actual construction. Oh my God! Decontructivism is an aesthetic
> movement on paper, like expressionism? I think I need to lie down.
>
> __________________________________________________________________________
> "I think the idea of misogyny is a stimulant to the feminists, and it's
> rather like anti-Semites looking for Jewish noses everywhere."
> Lucian Freud's response to his supposed misogyny and sexism.
>
Deconstructivism and Deconstruction. Read Mark Wigley's _Derrida's Haunt_.
Good luck.
Mikesch
mwmuecke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
On Mon, 28 Feb 1994, Howard Ray Lawrence 814 238 9535 wrote:
> - - The original note follows - -
>
> From: st93ak5s@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Michael Cullen)
> Subject: Deconstructivism and the Russian avant garde
> Date: Mon, 28 Feb 1994 04:15:18 GMT
>
> To Howard Park and all:
> I have been doing some digging to bolster my opinions about
> Deconstructivism. I have found the following article which does agree with
> my theories about deconstructivism.
> >From H.W. Janson's "History of Art" :
> Historicism addresses only the decorative veneer of the International style
> but Deconstructivism, another tendency that has been gaining momentum since
> 1980, goes much farther in challenging its substance. It does so,
> paradoxically enough, by returning to one of the earliest sources of
> modernism: the Russian avant garde. (Gasp! It wasn't Eisenman?) The Russian
> experiment in architecture proved short lived, and few of its ideas ever
> made it beyond the laboratory stage.(Gasp! It was an aesthetic movement,
> that fostered today's Deconstructivists?) Recent architects, inspired by
> the bold sculpture of the Constructivists and the graphic designs of the
> Suprematists, seek to violate the integrity of modern architecture by
> subverting its internal structure, which the Russians themselves did little
> to undermine.( Oh no! It was a group of Russian painters, graphic artists
> and sculptors that inspired recent architects? I thought Howard said my
> points about other areas in artistic fields that Deconstructivism affected
> were irrelevant to architecture?)
> Here's the real shocker: Although Deconstructivist designs have won major
> awards, their experimental approach and ambitious scale have discouraged
> their actual construction. Oh my God! Decontructivism is an aesthetic
> movement on paper, like expressionism? I think I need to lie down.
>
> __________________________________________________________________________
> "I think the idea of misogyny is a stimulant to the feminists, and it's
> rather like anti-Semites looking for Jewish noses everywhere."
> Lucian Freud's response to his supposed misogyny and sexism.
>