Deconstructivism existed long before the 1970s, writes architecture critic Joseph Giovannini, who wrote the book Architecture Unbound to tell the full history of the style, in this opinion piece ...

"Architecture Unbound: A Century of the Disruptive Avant-Garde is a corrective." Although Giovannini coined the term deconstructivism, he decided not to use it in the title of the book as the word ...

Phillip Johnson and Mark Wigley, excerpt from the MoMA Deconstructivist Architecture book. Following Derrida’s theories and the “avant-gardist” approach of Russian Constructivism ...

Now, a new book by Getty Publications, Franklin D. Israel: A Lifetime in Architecture, puts the spotlight on this lesser-known pioneer's work. In a moving tribute, author Todd Gannon, a professor of ...

Deconstructivism is, in fact, not a new architecture style, nor is it an avant-garde movement against architecture or society. It does not follow “rules” or acquire specific aesthetics ...