Friday, October 17, 2008

Deconstructivist Distopia

Disjunction as an aim for architectural work is sketchy when applied to a scale of city scape. Deconstructivist works of today by architects like Peter Eisenman, Daniel Libeskind, or Zaha Hadid are interesting as individual objects. Their novelty fuels discussion and excitement, but novelty fades with repetition, and what is left is the object itself. Already some are growing bored of Libeskind's work, and same goes for Ghery's trademarked architecture.
Ideas of deconstruction apply dynamism, through time and space. When current deconstructivist language become the dominant form of the world, new decontructivists will seek to disassociate from their predecessors' form. This mindset will bring forth a vicious cycle of disassociation, and how long will it take for even newer group of deconstructists to roll in and try to achieve their predecessors' goal? Building form will be in a constant destabilizing flux. That vision combined with the idea of "art that is constantly in the present" creates a nagging concern. In the ever changing deconstrutivist environment, we will be living constantly nostalgic of last year. To deal with this disequilibrium, are we to be constantly forgetful? To me, Deconstructivist theories paint a distopian future.

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