The Textbook of Architecture

Glossary · D

Deconstructivism

Also called Deconstruction, decon

The tendency of the 1980s–90s that fragmented, tilted and collided architectural forms, named by a MoMA exhibition in 1988.

Where it appears in the book

In the chapters The Contemporary.

Nearby in the glossary

Cyclopean masonry · Cyma recta · Cyma reversa · Dancheong · Decorated shed · Dentil · Diastyle · Die