Deconstructivism

//diːkənˈstɹʌktɪvɪzəm// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A development of postmodern architecture that began in the late 1980s, characterized by ideas of fragmentation, an interest in manipulating ideas of a structure's surface or skin, and non-rectilinear shapes which serve to distort and dislocate. uncountable

    "As an artist I have to ask: How much God is there in art theories like appropriation, deconstructivism, simulation and consumerism, which from the mid-1970s on have dominated the syllabus of many institutions that teach, critique and exhibit art?"

  2. 2
    a school of architecture based on the philosophical theory of deconstruction wordnet
  3. 3
    The practice of deconstructing dishes. uncountable

Etymology

From deconstructive + -ism.

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