Deconstructivism in 7 Minutes: Architecture Pushed To The Limit?

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Zaha Hadid built a terrible extension to the Serpentine Gallery that clashes with the elegant slim-line period building, she should've been stopped. And she was a hypocrite, because for herself and her team she bought the former Design Museum in London which does not have a curve in sight but is a straight line, minimalist white rectangle. A lot of these wacky architects (mostly male, with a big ego) do not live in what they build, but in period homes, e.g. Georgian. There's a reason why the classical shapes and styles have survived through centuries and are still loved today. Deconstructive architecture is 99% of the times a blot on the landscape and its architects should be made to live in it.

Do you guys have videos about Peter Eisenman, Bernard Tschumi, Frank Gehry, REM Koolhaas, Daniel Libeskind and Coop Himmelb?

You mean stupidity!

If a piece of art is big enough to get into, is it architecture?

deconstructivism makes me feel cool 8^)

Excellent production, thank you. £1.79Thanks for this educational video! .

Such a shame that your cuts are so fast that one has to pause your videos 25 times in order to get a chance to really take in the otherwise great examples you're showing.

PERFECTIONISM of your videos is mind-blowing!

How is it okay that there is one woman only in a group of men. :
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Interesting video. Horrid topic. Who let that happened !?

The whole concept is so cringe. That junk actually makes brutalism look not-so-bad.

Do you have a video like this pertaining to gothic architecture?

Love Love Love this style. So much so that as an architect student, it's not unusual to take an old model, break it a part & put it back in different arrangement & there u get ur model in Deconstructivism form.

I think it's ugly and it makes me feel ill. A sculpture is bad enough but a whole building? It amazes me how they got away with it. I don't envy the people who have to look at these or work inside them.

I love your videos on architecture!

I'm a francophone but this video helps me a lot ! May you make more video about other styles like contemporary, Romanesque, Minimalist, Modern, industrial, indian , parametric architecture please ? Thank you for the passion you share !

There was an old woman who lived in a shoe. She had so many children she didn’t know what to do. She craved for a fish and longed for a duck so the hungry children could deconstruct.

BTW, Calatrava is a wannabe architect structuring artsy installations for function compromised. Then came Zaha who could not structure, while Gehry went hairy with crumpled paper from the bin. And don’t forget Tchumi, who explored the In-between like Peter Eisenman theorizing the carved out loo in old castle walls , while the all time Modernist Foster -my mentor; cooked up Peter Cook’s Archigram in HK China.

Deconstructivism is trash.
Art Deco is much better.

A style only for millionaire snobs. That Is why you find it almost only on art museums or concert halls.

Architects on drugs. This style gives me Alice in Wonderland vibes.

If gender theory was an architecture. I see why it's associated with elitism. It screams for attention but doesn't have any real merits.

worst architecture style...they totally lack humanness in architecture.. people don't have anywhere to sit..just. false recognition it got ..it is bore insude and show offs from outside

I like it as something different and rare. Too much of it would be overwhelming.

Make a video comparing about modern, post modern and contemporary architecture.

This architectural style reminds me of the manifestation of Tim Burton’s mind. It’s wildly interesting and non-conforming to my eye. I love it!

I can only think of one example of this philosophy I could possibly justify - the Museum of Tropical Queensland, as the side facing the creek is supposed to look like a big sail.
Anything else I can think of just seems to be designed to look ridiculous and waste materials.

New York Metropolitan Museum of Art featured here and described as - Deconstructivist? Surely that one is modernist?

There's a wider spectre of possibilities in every field of culture and art. It's wonderful.

personally i dont like it that much, i mean designing wise of course it's such a revolutionary genius buildings wise !
but i dont like how strange and inhumane they look, and hard to access or move/live in.. and they make me feel scared and uncomfortable for some reason lol, especially Gehry's works
just my opinion tho.. great videos ! keep the good work

Too much ego. Architects trying to fix what ain't broke. Just make something functional and beautiful.

Excellent production, thank you

This architecture frustrates me, I can't explain why. However I do respect the architects and appreciate their genius.

Those buildings definitely look kind of left field , but at least in my town
you don't see this kind of architectural style everyday.
So I've decided to enjoy those "follies" or "eye-catchers" elements, too
Good -bye harmony and symmetry, hello discord and distortion. hehe
I wish I were inside one of those head turners.. 🙃😁
Thank you!

Can videos be translated into Arabic to benefit more people from your videos?💗

Deconstructivism is postModern nonsense. The goal of Deconstructivism was anarchy, chaos, dystopia and decadence. Jaques Derrida was a communist / collectivist lunatic. They hated beauty, harmony and symmetry because they hated themselves .......

We live in Las Vegas and frequently drive by Frank Gehry’s deconstructivist Lou Rovo Center for Brain Health. A fascinating building, especially at night when the windows glow red.

Came from Russian Avant-Garde

Nice presentation, it should be noted that recently Eisenmann distinguished between deconstructivism (Derrida's theory) and deconstructionism (what architects do).
Architecture cannot be deconstructed in the Derridean sense, it is more de-constructionism (especially in the case of early Zaha) and appears as a reaction to the ambiguity of meaning in architecture, double coding, etc.
It is somewhat false to assume that it promotes formal aspects such as unity-fragment (this promotes PoMo - see Venturi)

Please do a whole bunch of video on Modernism and post Modernism , art , culture , literature

In aesthetic terms, this is very old. Nothing new under the sun. This style was founded in the first half of the 20th century. Cubism, Futurism and Dada are all in here. With the only diference that it tries to be justified by the reference they use of Derrida.

If you have to create a folly to show people where to enter or navigate a building, then you've done something horribly horribly wrong.

One of the worst architecture styles 🤮

This is honestly the most beautiful style of architecture & no one can tell me other wise, I don’t understand how people can dislike these, do people really prefer boring sky rises?? They’re all the same prism shape. These ones are unique, there’s actual art & creativity & complexity in deconstructivism

I wish we could know what buildings we are seeing and where they are.

My dream is a deconstructivist house. It encompasses a great flight aviary, spacious reptile enclosures within light filled voids and small, curiously shaped, womb like sleeping places… there will be secret rooms, internal courtyard waterfalls, and an overload of textures…. An avoidance of right angles but not quite fully “organic” shapes, a juxtaposition of visual confusion that brings with it an overall sensory equilibrium…. Ahhh to dream!

Thanks for the video! I can appreciate the value of architects pushing back on formal structures and expectations, but I always wonder about where the line is drawn (sorry for the pun) in terms of the architect's freedom of expression and the utility needed for a structure to remain useful. Are there certain sets of requirements for the structures to work well for the people who need to use the spaces, and how do those requirements play a role in the architect's process if their goal is a deconstructivist esthetic?

Decostructivism is beautiful!