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saraxerxes
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 Posted: Sun May 16, 2004 8:51 am Post subject: D E C O N S T R U C T I O N -the style |
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hi,
i would like to know abt decontruction as a style in architecture. its origins, the current scenario, and the future expectations. i would like any info on deconstruction or any website that can give me a clear picture about it.
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arkitek
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| Posted: Mon May 17, 2004 6:30 am Post subject: deconstruction |
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hi
i know a colleague who had done his undergrad thesis on deconstruction.
his name is amey bhan and did his pg from TAMU.....
his web address is: anarchytecture.tripod.com
hope he is helpful to you.
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ali
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| Posted: Thu May 20, 2004 1:56 pm Post subject: deconstruction |
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Hi sarax
maybe i can help, what is it exactly that you need to know about deconstruction.
its can be a confusing topic, and its very debateable. some people might agree and others might strongly oppose. it mainly talks about how you can play with the forms, how you can break all the rules and use any forms for buildings. most of the time, you end up with a rather bizzare shape, that you might not be used to seeing around.
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saraxerxes
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| Posted: Fri May 21, 2004 5:58 pm Post subject: |
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 thanx for ur reply, samo.
i would like to know that, if im out to design a building in deconstructive style, how would i go about the process and what are the factors and material constraints that would influence my design?
thank u
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ali
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| Posted: Sat May 22, 2004 3:42 am Post subject: reply |
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hi again
first, do u mind if i ask you where you'r from sara?
about constrains, i dont think that is an issue in deconstruction. neither materials nor forms are constraints, this is the whole point about deconstruction.
that you are free to use any forms, any shapes, any materials. Deconstruction is about breaking the rules, and creating new, strange, bizzare buildings.
how do u achieve that? either by using different types of materials that we dont actually mix together. or by adding or subtracting crutially from the main structure so the viewr gets the feeling that the building has something unusual
a project i've run across (unfortunately i dont recall the name) had a whole frame made of steel covering part of the building. at first sight it might look like scaffolding, but it actually has no structural or functional purpose other than creating a background of white steel posts behind the building.
i tried to show a picture in my previous reply but unfortunately it didn't show so try this link:
http://giaba.supereva.it/scastra/21%20Behnisch%20school1.jpg
and tell me what you think of this building.
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saraxerxes
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thanx again
the pic was great! all that i could infer from it was that the form was dominated by the colouful spline wall which apparently doesnt seem to have any functional meaning to it. i would be glad if i could get my hands on some process drawings, if u can get one pls let me know. and i based in india
thank u
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ali
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| Posted: Sun May 23, 2004 10:17 am Post subject: reply |
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for that you can try searching for zaha hadid's works
in some of her projects you might be able to find sketches for her conceptual analysis. she has a unique designing buildings by creating the spaces first, like 3 dimensinal blocks, and then placing them next to each other according to her own perspective, ending up with different spaces related to each other leading to creative sometimes deconstructive forms.
these are also some pictures of her work, but if u preform a search, maybe google pictures, you will find lots of sketches that show the process in which she develops her plans.
http://www.exibart.com/foto/31255.jpg
www.louisvillescene.com/.../ 20030525museum.html
hope u find this useful.
if there is more, maybe if u have specific questions, you will be able to get replies and opinions. i do try my best to help you but i have limited knowledge on this theory.
try asking questions in order to start a debate, hearing different opinions will sure help you have a better understanding.
maybe we can start by asking sudents what they think. which comes first?? Form or Function??
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saraxerxes
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thanx for replying samo,
ill checkout zaha hadid's works. i agree that the topic
'FORM OR FUNCTION - which comes first?'
is truly debatable. i feel that both go hand in hand and one depends on the other for what it is. if any of u out there have any strong views on this topic do reply and let us find the answer.
thank u,
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chewich
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| Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2004 12:26 pm Post subject: |
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sara i hope i am not too late for replying.
zaha hadid do not work only deconstruction, don't be fooled by some photos . zaha hadid is mostly known in her mixture between deconstruction and expressionism.
the best example for deconstruction is Daniel Libeskind He is the best known for pure deconstruction and its theorical and conceptiual ideas...
guys i think you all must make much more researches about deconstruction because your replies are very undefined.
deconstruction started in paintings with the great painter "Kandinsky" as a true art current , but it always was a way of defoulement since begining of time .
a brief of libeskind
Born in postwar Poland in 1946, Libeskind became an American citizen in 1965. Daniel Libeskind studied music in Israel (on the America-Israel Cultural Foundation Scholarship) and in New York becoming a virtuoso performer. He left music to study architecture receiving his professional architectural degree at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in 1970 in New York City and a postgraduate degree in History and Theory of Architecture at the School of Comparative Studies at Essex University in 1972. He is registered as an architect in Germany with the Bund Deutscher Architekten (BDA).
Daniel Libeskind won the competition for the Jewish Museum Berlin in 1989, which opened to the public in September 2001 to wide public acclaim. The city museum of Osnabrück, Germany, The Felix Nussbaum Haus, opened in July 1998. Most recently, in July 2002, the Imperial War Museum North in Manchester opened to the public. He is presently designing and constructing The Spiral Extension to the Victoria & Albert Museum, London; The Jewish Museum in San Francisco, U.S.A; the JVC University - Colleges of Public Administration, Education and Art & Architecture, Guadalajara, Mexico; Maurice Wohl Convention Centre, Bar Ilan University, Tel Aviv; Atelier Weil, a private atelier/gallery in Mallorca, Spain; a department store for developer Wohnbau Nordwest in Dresden, Germany, the largest shopping center in Europe outside of Bern, Switzerland for the developer MIGROS, the Extension to the Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado, a post graduate student center for the London Metropolitan University and the Extension to the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto. Most recently Studio Daniel Libeskind is one of the six design teams participating in the World Trade Center Design Study for which the decision is still pending.
Libeskind has taught and lectured at many universities worldwide. Currently he is the Frank O. Gehry Chair at the University of Toronto; a Professor at the Hochschule für Gestaltung, Karlsruhe, Germany and the Cret Chair at the University of Pennsylvania. He was appointed a member of the European Academy of Arts and Letters, and has been the recipient of numerous awards, most recently the 2001 Hiroshima Art Prize, the first architect so awarded, an award given to an artist whose work promotes international understanding and peace. He was awarded the 1999 Deutsche Architekturpreis (German Architecture Prize) for the Jewish Museum Berlin; also the 2000 Goethe Medaillon for cultural contribution; in 1996 the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Architecture and in the same year the Berlin Cultural Prize; in 1997 an Honorary Doctorate from Humboldt Universität, Berlin; also in 1999 an Honorary Doctorate from the College of Arts and Humanities, Essex University, England; and most recently in 2002 an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Edingburgh and an Honorary Dorctorate from DePaul University, Chicago. His work has been exhibited extensively in major museums and galleries around the world and has also been the subject of numerous international publications in many languages. His ideas have influenced a new generation of architects and those interested in the future development of cities and culture.
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Alvafamila
Joined: 10 Jun 2004
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Location: Las Vegas, Nevada
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| Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2004 1:24 am Post subject: Deconstructivist style came from people mad at post-moderism |
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Deconstuctivism
The very word deconstuctivist relates the system to the 1920's Russian genre of Constructivism, brought about by the Russian Revolution. The Bolshevik Party brought Russia out of the Agricultural Age and into the modern Industrial Age, giving birth to an entirely new, totally unseen form of art.
Check out the sculpture called: Moment of Third International by Vladimir Tatlin
The word deconstructivist seems to be a contradiction in terms. The very word itself emotes a response that tricks our minds into de-constructing meaning in the literal word. Text that is devoid of ' a meaning' can be saying many things at once, not just one thing, yet no specific thing at all. Surely this is a metaphor for our times; freedom means repression, liberation means slavery, democracy means fascism and peace means war. To say peace with weapons and mass murder is to speak devoid of literal translation of a specific meaning. In fact, it is a lie
It is meaning taken out of context and replaced with no real contextual translation, therefore open-ended, to be replaced with many different and many times contradictory meanings. I know this is abstract, but that is the essence of de-constuctivist. To devoid meaning of the sacred ideals that people hold onto so much in architecture.
MODERN deconstuctivst theory really lies in the heart of a few renound architects. The most prevelent being Benard Tschumi. Before him, the theory was really dying out. But he wrote many books that reintroduced the theorys back into mainstream architectural theory.
You really need to read the books by him and his predecesors.
Here are some books that are essential to read if you want to learn about this topic.
Benard Tschumi: Architecure and Disjunction
Event Cities 1 and 2
Rem Koolhaas: Delerious New York
Thom Mayne: Morphosis
Daniel Libeskind : The Space of Encounter
Eric Own Moss: Gnostic Architecture
Peter Eisenman: A dekonstruktivizmustól
Takasaki Masaharu: An Architecture of Cosmology
Franklin D. Israel: Buildings + Projects
But also read the opposing theory
Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown: Learning From Las Vegas
Steven Holl : Parralax
James Howard Kunstler: Geography Of Nowhere: The Rise And Declineof America'S Man-Made Landscape
Etc.Etc
and on
Those could really get you started on this theory, cause its a major, major topic to really engage. |
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