Deconstructivism in 7 Minutes: Architecture Pushed To The Limit?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 มิ.ย. 2024
- In today’s episode, we are going to learn about Deconstructivism, an architectural style that forever changed the course of architecture.
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This architecture frustrates me, I can't explain why. However I do respect the architects and appreciate their genius.
Human brains like order, consistency and really don't like being surprised: houses are square, roofs are slanted, door handles are round...
Work on dissociating form from function and these creations will become much more enjoyable.
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 !
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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
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If they are truly beautiful buildings, they will stand the test of time and won’t be torn down in the next decade or so. I have my doubts….
@@matthewsantomarco2714 it will test time for sure, it’s timeless it doesn’t have an aesthetic that can be labeled for a certain decade even if it started in the 80s. It’s looks futuristic, I’m very curious to know what others genuinely consider better than this, no modern building in an urbanized setting is anything special it’s all like the rest..very bland, so bland it actually hurts the eyes
I agree with you
Was that irony? It is wrong that they don't see something you do, but ok that you don't see something that they do?
There's a wider spectre of possibilities in every field of culture and art. It's wonderful.
Thanks for this educational video! 🙏🏻
Thank you for always patching the holes in my education :D
Of course - our pleasure! ☺️
…really don’t care to hear her talk about architecture
PERFECTIONISM of your videos is mind-blowing!
The Emperor is not only naked, actually he is wearing flip-flops
Mmmm, is it in the relation to any particular moment in this video?
About NEW TOPICS...
Few days ago, I have engaged a discussion about the evolution of architecture. Some architeture styles/ schools/ movements have appear in time, sometimes learning from the previous one, sometimes rejecting the previous ideas.
I suggest you people make a video putting the evolution of architecture in a timeline, especially regarding the 19th and 20th centuries's styles, telling which ones learned or reject the previous ideas.
Just a suggestion. You people make great videos.
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!
What an amazing dream! 🤩
I love your videos on architecture!
…the thing about decon is that it needs something to deconstruct. On its own it’s not even a “style” …it’s nothing
Interesting thinking 🤔
It is a little bit like Scottish football fans. They take pride in being the best behaved fans to set themselves apart from the English fans who have a abysmal reputation.
But if you define yourself by what you are not, what are you? Unfortunately, by being a reaction to something, you are in a way subservient.
The English are ruled by their inherent nature. The Scotts too. Not a good look.
Please do a whole bunch of video on Modernism and post Modernism , art , culture , literature
Excellent production, thank you
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I work at one of these buildings you showed, thank you for the video!
Do you like working there?
@@CuriousMuse It's as colourful as it is on the outside! :)
Make a video comparing about modern, post modern and contemporary architecture.
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.
We’ve just googled the building and oh wow, it looks so awesome! 🤯
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)
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?
Great and such a difficult question to answer! Perhaps it’s about finding a balance between architect’s freedom of expression and utility.
Well documented 👏 Especially for a seven minutes long summary. I learned many things so thank you 🤗
As for the deconstructivist movement itself this is what happens when some depleted drug addicts teenagers take over papa's architectural office.
So good to hear you’ve learned something new - this is what keeps us making these videos 🙏🏻
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!
They can be quite eye-catching indeed!
Do you guys have videos about Peter Eisenman, Bernard Tschumi, Frank Gehry, REM Koolhaas, Daniel Libeskind and Coop Himmelb?
Decostructivism is beautiful!
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Frank Gehry likes reflective concave surfaces, resulting in death rays of concentrated sunlight that attack nearby buildings. Maybe form should follow function a little.
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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.
Do you have a video like this pertaining to gothic architecture?
It was some kind of a movement , all the architects after the years 60-70 where trying to change ideas about conceiving architecture , the only and the real deconstructivism was conceived by only one architect Peter eisenmen the problem was that his first idea where turning on one vision his first houses a simple forms sometimes cubic , dealing with surfaces disorientation trying to ignore functions , complexity , and all this where explored by pioneer especially Le Corbusier , and for Peter declaring that his is about to lunch a new way of thinking and he named it deconstruction it will be his theory and his idea , no one can say that deconstructivism does not exist , like Le Corbusier in his time all architects of his time shares the idea that they are about a new type of architecture , only one who named it modern architecture and he gives a general model "villa savoye" with five points , that if you want to do modern architecture you have to see the general model . Now we ask the question why the others refuse the idea that they are a part of Peter theory , and it is true yes , because at that time it was a movement , architects began to move on to change the image of architecture , and you have to admit that it is not normal that Bernard tchumi won a competition with the idelogy of Peter eisenmen , who participate also in the competition , now from that time 80 to now whene you pick a star architect and you began analysing his work , you will see that his work keep changing like Bernard tchumi his first work not like his early work perhaps you will see hight tech in one of his projects , now we are in the era of individualism
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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.
The architects of today, oh what a sight,
Their designs so modern, so bold and so bright,
They build up so high, they scrape at the sky,
Their structures so grand, they make us all sigh.
Zaha Hadid with curves so slick,
Her buildings rise up, they're truly sick,
Frank Gehry with his twists and turns,
His designs make us dizzy, our stomachs churn.
Bjarke Ingels with his playful style,
His creations make us stop and smile,
And Rem Koolhaas with his crazy plans,
His buildings are like nothing on this land.
But amidst all this talent, I have to confess,
Sometimes their designs leave us in distress,
We scratch our heads and ask "What is that?"
And wonder if they were high on catnip or bat.
So let's raise a glass to these modern-day greats,
Their creativity and vision, we must appreciate,
And though some may not be to our taste,
At least they keep architecture from being a waste.
I wish we could know what buildings we are seeing and where they are.
Thanks for the feedback 👍🏻
Excellent production, thank you. £1.79Thanks for this educational video! .
Thank you so much! 😍🙏🏻
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.
We’ll, they say tastes differ! 😅. We love Guggenheim building in Bilbao for instance.
I like it as something different and rare. Too much of it would be overwhelming.
Exactly 😍👌🏻
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.
Thanks very much but plz kindly note there’re some issues with the subs
What do you mean about subs? )
@@CuriousMuse Right now it’s fixed and works well :)
This is a response to constructionism. It has been aiming for fun, being whimsical, entertaining, and attention-seeking.
And .... hollow, pointless, self-hating and ugly just like postModern culture.
I am intrigued by the shapes. I wonder how much of the original program is comprised or added to in order to make the shapes. “The Concept”. I feel sorry for the people putting these buildings together, working 60 hours per week and getting paid for 40. when you design a building in 3D on a computer it takes a lot of time. I am not sure which direction the architectural profession is going, but fewer people are getting into it, and many leave after only a few years. Failure rate from any architecture school is still 75%. You start with 100, 25 graduate, less than half of the graduates become registered architects. Young people today are starting to realize that there is a better way to make a living.
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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
They look a bit inhumane indeed - perhaps nice to look at but not so to live in.
deconstructivism makes me feel cool 8^)
Which song is this 0:25
Oh, can’t remember 🫤, perhaps please try Shazam app on your phone? This will catch the song :)
Architects on drugs. This style gives me Alice in Wonderland vibes.
Interesting video. Horrid topic. Who let that happened !?
Why horrid? :)
If a piece of art is big enough to get into, is it architecture?
New York Metropolitan Museum of Art featured here and described as - Deconstructivist? Surely that one is modernist?
What is the time stamp in the video?
Gothic architecture
Good idea for the next video 👍🏻
Most of the bldgs make me feel uncomfortable--like I'm not supposed to be in them; they just don't feel like a part of human society. God, the eighties.
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!
Such a good analogy! We love Tim Burton’s movies! 😍
Came from Russian Avant-Garde
Can videos be translated into Arabic to benefit more people from your videos?💗
We actually do have Arabic subtitles available for most of our videos including this one 😊🙏🏻
How sound are they, how would they stand up to an earthquake. How difficult are they to maintain, clean and service. All well and good to let your "freak flag fly". But if the thing falls down, or cost a mint to maintain its not worth it.
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.
Beautiful and stunning but a pain in the azz for engineers 😅
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.
Or maybe it's only for people who can handle it ?
A style only for millionaire snobs. That Is why you find it almost only on art museums or concert halls.
It’s not much visual harmony! Only eye shoking!
Tastes differ :)
@@CuriousMuse of course, but you ask for opinions
Not really subjectivity doesn't exist when one style is dominant.
One of the worst architecture styles 🤮
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@@CuriousMuse not to say I didn’t appreciate the video!
Too much ego. Architects trying to fix what ain't broke. Just make something functional and beautiful.
You don’t like this freedom of form? ☺️
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.
I find this style of architecture boring and distasteful. It's a shame that it seems like older styles have been abandoned because architects all want to be special and create something whacky and fresh and stick it to tradition. I wish they would stick to sculpting and painting, I can appreciate it there
How is it okay that there is one woman only in a group of men. :
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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.
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
The whole concept is so cringe. That junk actually makes brutalism look not-so-bad.
“O no I don’t get it! It must be elitist!”
Perhaps :)
No. It's elitist because the intent of the design is to disorient people. The architect always has the last laugh against the users of the space.
Deconstructivism is trash.
Art Deco is much better.
Tastes differ they say 😅
Some tastes are better than others.
Finaly !Thank you very much ! Next on post - modernism🥹
Sounds perfect! 👌🏻
I like it in moderation. 3:14 is one of the ugliest buildings I’ve ever seen but I like 5:41.