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deconstructivism

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun An architectural style dating from the late 1900s characterized by unconventional, often arresting design elements, such as curved or sloping walls, slanted columns, and asymmetric structures and spaces.

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  • noun architecture A development of postmodern architecture that began in the late 1980s, characterized by ideas of fragmentation, an interest in manipulating ideas of a structure's surface or skin, and non-rectilinear shapes which serve to distort and dislocate.

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  • noun a school of architecture based on the philosophical theory of deconstruction

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deconstructive +‎ -ism

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