Libeskind

Imperial War Museum Sketch by Libeskind | United Kingdom

Deconstruction, a philosophical movement initiated by Jacques Derrida seeks to unravel the hidden assumptions and contradictions present in language, literature, and other forms of expression. Do we have hidden assumptions and contradictions present in the architecture of our cities? How do we as architects use that to solve a problem or to represent a deep philosophical idea? I was asking myself these questions when I learned about the deconstruction movement in architecture, and it didn't make sense to me in the beginning but after I read more and saw different projects by Libeskind and how he used philosophical ideas to represent his deconstruction designs, it challenged the established principles of unity, harmony, and symmetry. It embraces fragmentation, asymmetry, and the deconstruction of traditional forms to create a new language of architecture that goes beyond the ordinary. This is telling me a really important thing: architecture can be anything, and anything can be architecture, but it really depends on how we can interpret anything.