The Textbook of Architecture

The Cabinet of Models

Deconstructed volumes

Tilted, colliding and cantilevered volumes in the manner of Deconstructivism: turn the tilt to zero to recover an orderly modernist group.

Deconstructed volumes Open in Models ↗

Illustrates: Deconstructivism

The rules it illustrates

Disturb the pure form. Tilt, twist, fragment and collide the volumes of a composition, so that no floor is level, no wall upright and no angle square except where the ground forces it.

Where it appears in the book

In the styles Deconstructivism.

In the chapters The Contemporary.