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Deconstructivism
//diːkənˈstɹʌktɪvɪzəm// noun
Definitions
Noun
- 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 a school of architecture based on the philosophical theory of deconstruction wordnet
- 3 The practice of deconstructing dishes. uncountable
Etymology
From deconstructive + -ism.
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