Deconstruction in Architecture II

Deconstructionist Architecture was criticized as


 * not being a movement
 * not having a creed/ideology
 * not having three elements of membership
 * no sense of unity in its architects

Daniel Libeskind
One of the deconstructionist architecs

"Writing Machine"
Art Project, 1989

Made dynamic, hand-cranked stamps to reorganize city planning

City Edge Berlin
A long, narrow apartment block

Ran at the edge of the city and intersected the Berlin Wall

Considered history of the city and hitler's idea of the north south corridor -> by crossing that corridor

Jewish Museum
Very prestigious commission

Daniel Libeskind decided that rather than show harmony between the old museum building and his new addition -> he would make a jagged zig zag line that would show the dramatic break of the holocaust

Includes an empty space -> "the void" that can never be filled, but which is inalienable

People went to see the building empty

Peter Eisenmann
May have been influenced by other artists like Sol LeWitt

Responded to Jacques Derrida's ideas on deconstrution, and engaged the idea of habitation through theory

Wexner Center for the Visual Arts
in Columbus, Ohio

responded to the idea of town-gown tension by incorporating the 12.5 angle of the street (reflecting the town culture)

Intersected two existed buildings

Referred back to an armory that had once stood on the site by building fragmented towers

Used an open iron block grid which intersects with trees and angles of the buildings facade

Lots of clashing and intersection

Ponders monumentality and museum quality

Projects
Tokyo Project

Berlin Skyscraper Project

Bernard Tschumi
Enjoyed deconstructing film landscapes

Parc de la Villette
Paris

Used a red block as a basic element of the Park, then deconstructed them to make many motifs on the theme

These blocks were set into the landscape of the park, over water, and connected to one another with bridges