deconstructivism
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/diːkənˈstɹʌktɪvɪzəm/
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/diːkənˈstɹʊktɪvɪzəm/
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- UK
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diːkənˈstɹʌktɪvɪzəm
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Noun
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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As an artist I have to ask: How much God is there in art theories like appropriation, deconstructivism, simulation and consumerism, which from the mid-1970s on have dominated the syllabus of many institutions that teach, critique and exhibit art?
The practice of deconstructing dishes.
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Noun
a school of architecture based on the philosophical theory of deconstruction
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