Deconstructivism (ARCHITECTURE)

INTRODUCTION•“ A movement in architecture”

•Began in the late 1980s

•characterized by fragmentation

• finished visual appearance of buildings that exhibit deconstructivist "styles" is characterized by unpredictability and controlled chaos.

Characteristics

•Explodes architectural form into loose collections of related fragments.

•Destroys the dominance of the right angles and the cube.

•Uses ideas and images from Russian.

•Provokes shocks, uncertainly, unease, disquiet, disruption, distortion by challenging familiar ideas about space, order and regularity.

•Rejects the ideas of the ‘perfect form’ for a particular activity.

•Minimalism and Cubism have an influence on deconstructivism.

•It also often shares with minimalism notions of conceptual art.

Zaha Mohammad Hadid•Born : 31 October 1950

•Nationality : Iraq- British

•Buildings: Maxxi, Bridge Pavilion, Maggie’s Centre,

Contemporary Arts Center

• She grew up in one of Baghdad's first Bauhaus-inspired

buildings during an era in which "modernism connoted

glamour and progressive thinking" in the Middle East.

MAXXI, ROME,ITALY.

• National Museum of contemporary arts and architecture.

• The concrete walls that defi ne the exhibition galleries and determine the interweaving of volumes.

• The transparent roof that modulates natural l ights.

BRIDGE PAVILION, ZARAGOZA, SPAIN

• 280-metre- long (919 ft)

• Imitates a gladiola over the r iver ebro

• USE fi bre glass reinforced concrete to envelope the br idge

• Outer skin of the bui lding with 29,000 tr iangles of fi brec in diff erent shades of grey.

MAGGIE’S CENTRE, KIRKCALDY, FIFE.

• Clear and translucent glass, with powerful ly sculptural canti levers.

• Entrance facade is almost entirely made from glass.

• North:the roof extension protects the entrance.

• South: i t provides shade.

CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER (CAC), OHIO, US.

• The CAC is a non-col lect ing museum that focuses on new developments in painting, sculpture, photography, architecture, performance art and new media.

Frank Owen Gehry•Born : 28 February 1929

•Nationality : Canadian, American

•Practice : Gehry Partners , LLP

•Buildings : Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Walt Disney Concert Hall,

Weisman Art Museum, Dancing House, Emp Museum

•Mainly work in deconstructivism and Hi-tech architecture.

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GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM BILBAO, BILBAO, SPAIN

• The curves on the exterior of the building were intended to appear random

• The randomness of the curves are designed to catch the l ight.

• Nicknamed : The Flower

WALT DISNEY CONCERT HALL, CALIFORNIA.

• The original designed stone exterior was replaced with a less costly metal skin.

• The founders room and children’s amphitheatre were designed with highly polished mirror-like panels.

WEISMAN ART MUSEUM, MINNESOTA

• Campus side: it presents a brick facade that blends with the exist ing brick and sandstone bui ldings.

• Opposite side: the museum is a playground of curving and angular brushed steel sheets. This side is an abstraction of a waterfal l and a fi sh.

DANCING HOUSE, PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC.

• “New aroque” to the designers

• The “dancing” shape is supported by 99 concrete panels, each a d iff erent shape and dimension.

• On the top of the bui ld ing is a large twisted structure of metal n icknamed medusa.

EMP MUSEUM

Daniel Libeskind•Born : 12 May 1946

•Nationality : American-Polish

•Buildings: Jewish Museum Berlin,

Royal Ontario Museum

JEWISH MUSEUM BERLIN

ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM

Rem Koolhas•Born : 17 November 1944

•Nationality : Dutch

•Buildings : Casa da Musica, Seattle Central Library

CASA DA MÚSICA, PORTUGAL

• Concert hall.

SEATTLE CENTRAL LIBRARY

• The library has a unique, striking appearance, consisting of several discrete "fl oating platforms" seemingly wrapped in a large steel net around glass skin.

Others

ACROPOLIS MUSEUM, GREECE BY T-SCHUMI. (2009)

UFA PALAST, GERMANY BY COOP HIMMELB AKRON ART MUSEUM,OHIO,USA