Implementation Parc de la Villette

Bernard Tschumi’s Parc de la villette is one of the most-mentioned pieces when talking about the implementation of Deconstruction discourse in architecture. In designing the park, he challenges the classical oppositions that think in terms of cause and effects. Architecture is

Deconstruction and Its Implementation in Architecture

“Something has been constructed, a philosophical system, a tradition, a culture, and along comes a de-constructor who destroy it stone by stone, analyzes the structure and dissolves it. One looks at a system and examine how it was built, which keystone, which angle supports the buildings; one shift them and thereby frees oneself from the authority of the system.”
Derrida

Borrowing Architectural Theory: Fissures In The Simulation Of Coherence

 GEORGE L. CLAFLEN, JR.
Temple University
ASSESSMENT
If architecture is at all a system grounded in any "reality" of experience and nature, then a deconstruction of its language cannot proceed from an assumption of total arbitrariness. This is the issue which the deconstructionists take up with respect to phenomenology. At the same time, if architecture is a totally arbitrary system of meaning, then it should be possible to eliminate all natural or quasi-natural elements from it.