Deconstructivism Style in Architecture
Deconstruction is an architectural style that has had a significant impact on architects and designers as well as policy and decision-makers of high-status projects over the years. It has, over time, been and still is an essential canvas where architects showcase their high-end expertise in building and construction. It is an expressive kind of art whereby feelings, interests, and thoughts influence the variety of designs developed by architects.
Three human sciences have influenced architecture; philosophy, sociology, and psychology. These currents of thoughts have bred great philosophers who developed deconstruction as a critical theory, which afterward transferred on to architecture (Hoteit 117). Architecture has always been a central cultural institution valued above all for its provision of stability and order and still upholding purity. The architect aims at producing objects from which all instability and disorder have bee excluded. Buildings are constructed by taking simple geometric forms- cubes, pyramids, spheres, cones, and so on and combining them into stable ensembles. Besides, this is done while still paying respect to compositional rules, which prevent anyone from conflicting with the other. No form is permitted to distort the other, and all potential conflict handled beforehand.. The types contribute harmoniously to generate a unified whole geometric structure guaranteeing stability (Johnson & Wigley 10).
Another quality of deconstructive architecture is the necessity to preserve purity. Having produced this basic structure, the architect then elaborates it into a final design in a way that maintains its originality. Any deviation from structural order and any impurity is termed a threat to formal values- harmony, unity, stability, and hence protected from the structure. This because architecture is a conservative discipline that produces pure form and protects it from contamination. A deconstructive architect is therefore not one who dismantles buildings, but one who locates the inherent dilemmas within buildings (Johnson & Wigley 10, 11).
Angles, colors, shapes and other external and general aesthetics of a building are what deconstructivism targets to revamp while at the same time maintaining convenience, safety, durability and more importantly the value end effectiveness of a building.