Deconstructivist architecture

1. Deconstructivism

2. Postmodernism embraces older conventions and then violates them in an ironic way. Deconstructivism subverts, disturbs, and deconstructs older conventions.

3. Pompidou Centre National d'Art et Culture, Paris Richard Rogers, Renzo Piano, Ove Arup. (1971-77 Pompidu Center, Paris Renzo Piano 1971

4. Pompidou

5. Pompidou

6. Pompidou plan

7. Pompidou from Notre Dame

8. Ohio State University (the Wexner Center for the Arts) Peter Eisenman 1982

9. Wexner 1982-90

10. Wexner

11. Wexner

12. aerial

13. interior

14. Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Spain Frank Gehry 1993

15. Guggenheim

16. Drawing of west elevation 1992

17. Guggenheim

19. Elevation, note much is below grade

20. Site plan

22. Guggenheim

23. Guggenheim

24. Guggenheim

25. Guggenheim

26. interior

27. Interior

28. Jewish Museum , Berlin Daniel Libeskind Jewish Museum in Berlin, Daniel Libeskind

32. interior

33. interior

34. Interior, a void

39. MIT

40. MIT

41. MIT

42. MIT, amphitheater

43. MIT, interior