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Deconstructivism
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The late twentieth century tendency toward fragmentation, skewed geometry and apparent instability, named by the 1988 Deconstructivist Architecture exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, which gathered Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Rem Koolhaas, Peter Eisenman, Daniel Libeskind, Bernard Tschumi and Coop Himmelblau. Computer-aided design later made its impossible-looking forms buildable, the Guggenheim Bilbao most famously.
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PeriodThe naming exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art opened in 1988; the tendencies it named were visible in unbuilt projects earlier in the decade. Origin RegionUnited States and Europe 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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Included in the naming 1988 exhibition, though he resisted the label.
Included in the naming 1988 exhibition.
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Deconstructivism takes both its name and some of its fractured, diagonal formal language from Russian Constructivism, filtered through late-twentieth-century critical theory.
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