5 Sections
25 Lessons
4 Hours
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1. The World That Made It
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1.1
Deconstructivism: the whole period in one lesson
1.2
Geography, climate and the materials to hand
1.3
Power, religion and who paid for buildings
1.4
What daily life was actually like
1.5
What came immediately before
2. What They Built
5
2.1
The building types of Deconstructivism
2.2
Sacred architecture
2.3
Civic, royal and public buildings
2.4
Housing and everyday building
2.5
The city in Deconstructivism
3. How They Built It
5
3.1
Computer-aided geometry and the collapse of the orthogonal
3.2
Materials and where they came from
3.3
Structure: how it actually stands up
3.4
Tools, labour and life on the building site
3.5
How long it took and what it cost
4. The Language
5
4.1
The elements and vocabulary of Deconstructivism
4.2
Proportion, geometry and rule
4.3
Ornament and what it meant
4.4
Light, colour and surface
4.5
How to recognise Deconstructivism in ten seconds
5. What Survived and What It Changed
5
5.1
The Vitra Fire Station by Zaha Hadid, read in detail
5.2
The Jewish Museum Berlin by Daniel Libeskind, read in detail
5.3
The Guggenheim Bilbao by Frank Gehry, read in detail
5.4
Why Deconstructivism gave way to what came next
5.5
What architects still steal from Deconstructivism today
Deconstructivism and What Came After
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