The Theory of Architecture: Concepts, Themes & PracticesThis jargon-free guide to design and architecture theory helps professionals engage in the discourse of where and what architecture is, and has been. |
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Page 68
... deconstructivism was formally celebrated in the Deconstructivist Architecture exhibit at New York's Museum of Modern Art in 1988 and Mark Wigley , in the book accompanying it , wrote of the modernist ' dream of pure form ' being ...
... deconstructivism was formally celebrated in the Deconstructivist Architecture exhibit at New York's Museum of Modern Art in 1988 and Mark Wigley , in the book accompanying it , wrote of the modernist ' dream of pure form ' being ...
Page 377
... Deconstructivism seeks out the flaws in traditional structuring by metaphorically applying either an architectural poultice or ' violent torture ' so that " impurity is drawn to the surface . " Deconstructivism " gains all its force by ...
... Deconstructivism seeks out the flaws in traditional structuring by metaphorically applying either an architectural poultice or ' violent torture ' so that " impurity is drawn to the surface . " Deconstructivism " gains all its force by ...
Page 417
... Deconstructivism and against the ideology of poststructuralism , which shows how awkwardly architecture sits in the literary world ; it is just different from classical and modern composition . We are back with Frank Lloyd Wright . A ...
... Deconstructivism and against the ideology of poststructuralism , which shows how awkwardly architecture sits in the literary world ; it is just different from classical and modern composition . We are back with Frank Lloyd Wright . A ...
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Introduction | 1 |
Chapter 1 | 25 |
B Social Aspects of Theory | 50 |
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