Anti-Architecture and Deconstruction

Anti-Architecture and Deconstruction

The Triumph of Nihilism

Genre:Architecture
Language: English
Published:May 01, 2008
Edition:3rd
Paperback
Origin:Nepal
ISBN13:9789937623131
ISBN10:9937623138
Pages:200

About the Book

The phrase "The Emperor Has No Clothes" is an old one, yet it fits Deconstructivism perfectly because it is nothing more than Modernism in a different form. Modernists, especially the Bauhäusler, sought to erase the past by throwing out all that came before. To give their objectives and works a fictitious historical background, they occasionally claimed connections with predecessors. Now, sympathetic architects and their followers are claiming these dubious connections and precedents for the Deconstructivists' works. This book's second edition marks the start of a long-overdue counterattack.