Deconstruction Architecture Has a Major

Deconstruction Architecture has a major impact on the development of the contemporary, late-capitalist built environment. Twentieth century architects like Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier carved a path for modernist planners to spread deconstruction architecture throughout the world. The progression of the movement found widespread support in organic models of architectural design and integrated building rehabilitations which seemed to mystically incorporate surrounding nature. Synchronous with the forces of visual and other arts, deconstruction opened up neutral spaces for exhibition and performance as integral aspects of the everyday lived experiences of those built environments. The foregoing dissertation proposal outlines the development of organic architecture as a philosophy of deconstruction; promoting harmony between human habitation and the natural world through design approaches so sympathetic and well integrated with its site that buildings, furnishings, and surroundings become part of a unified, interrelated composition.

Statement of Problem

The era of Modernist architecture was characterized by cosmopolitanism. Post WWII those stylistic standards contributed to the reconstruction of both Europe and Japan, and it is not surprisingly, then, that the two locations produced some of the most recognized and most abundant urban architectural structural developments. In continental Europe, seminal constructions by architectural designers like Le Corbusier in France, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Walter Gropius in Germany esteemed a post Frankfurt School movement toward reunification through democratic expression. Reflexive to internationalist theories within the field of Modernist architecture, the United States was already host to a burgeoning architectural renaissance underway. Of keen interest was the early sustainable construction of North American architect, Frank Lloyd Wright.

Deconstruction came on the scene in the 1960s, and has had a strong and lasting influence both in terms of methodological consideration in architecture and in public perception. Closely aligned to French Philsopher, Jacques Derrida and later followed by international intellectuals such as Japanese Philosopher, Kojin Karatani, much of the apt critique of its root in linguistics and grammatology offered flexibility to a field of Modernity once producing structures akin to neat cookie cutter boxes. From the 1980s forward, it is said that 'Gaudi was born again,' and one can observe in every major metropolis, the strange angles and conflicting fabrication that came to characterize buildings, integrally and in conflict with other like structures in the same surroundings. From a design perspective, a significant aspect of deconstructionism in architecture is the incorporation of flexible and modular parts, functioning as unrelated elements.

Deconstruction reached its zenith during the Parc de la Villette architectural design competition. In 1983, Peter Eisenman proved his artistic direction at the New York exhibition that year, with featured works by Frank Gehry, Daniel Libeskind, Rem Koolhaas, Peter Eisenman, Zaha Hadid, Coop Himmelbau, as well as Bernard Tschumi . French architect, Tschumi won the international competition for the planning of the Parc de la Villette that year. A graduate of the Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule, Zurich, his career of dispersion or 'post-humanist' version of deconstruction has furthered the theoretical school of deconstruction architecture through attendant discursive projects outside of building construction.

Since the late twentieth century, Deconstruction's historical landmarks speckle urban metropolises across the globe. For instance, CCTV Building in Beijing, designed by Rem kolhaas, is a merit to the school. In the West, the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao Spain, designed by Frank Gehry, reveals cultural continuity of institutional deconstruction architecture. Retrospect on deconstructionist architecture has also wrought new priorities in sustainable building. The green construction market has prompted an increase in decentralized supplier relationships with building firms, as local, recyclable sources become more popular.

Theoretical Considerations