Excellently edited and beautifully printed on a glossy paper with perfect illustrations and text showing and explaining everything you need to know about Deconstruction... in theory. Not many real projects - just a few. Almost all projects are studies by models, beautiful perspective renderings, views of interiors, site and floor plans, elevations, and many futuristic diagrams including collages. All very pretty though not necessarily fully clear.
300 color illustrations, 264 pages, 10.2 x 12.2 x 1.2 inches, ISBN: 0847810666 (Rizzoli Paperback), 0847810631 (Rizzoli Hardcover), 0856709670 (Academy Paperback), 0856709964 (Academy Hardcover).
CONTENTS:
Foreword 7
PART I. Constructivist Origins
Russian Precursors 11
The Development of the Constructivist Architects' Design Method 21
Survey of Constructivist Work 28
Iakov Chernikov 38
Ivan Leonidov 60
PART II. Theory and Philosophy
Fifty-Two Aphorisms for a Foreword 67
Jacques Derrida Interview by Christopher Norris 71
Discussion and Comments 76
Derrida, Architecture and Philosophy 80
Deconstruction is not what you think 84
Deconstruction and Postmodernism 85
Deconstruction: A Review of the Tate Gallery Symposium 88
PART III. Deconstruction and Art
Deconstruction Deconstructed 93
Beyond Art and Philosophy: Deconstruction and the Post-Modern Sublime 98
The Rules of Montage 107
The Elegance of Balance 111
Part IV. Deconstruction and Architecture
Deconstruction: The Pleasures of Absence 119
Deconstructivist Architecture 132
The Slippery Floor 135
An Architectural Design Interview 141
Blue Line Text 150
En Terror Firma: In Trails of Grotextes 152
Wexner Center for the Visual Arts 155
Bio-Centrum, Frankfurt 159
Guariola House 163
Carnegie-Mellon Research Institute 169
Parc de la Villette 175
Tokyo Opera 163
Country Hall, Strasbourg 189
Still Life with Red Predictions 192
The Surface Must Die. A Proof 193
The Four Texts 194
Berlin City Edge 197
The Peak Club, Hong Kong 207
Kurfurstendamm 70 211
IBA Housing, Block 2, West Berlin 215
West Hollywood Civic Center 219
Funderwerk 3 221
Attic Conversation, Vienna 225
Ronacher Theatre, Vienna 227
Hamburg Skyline 229
Comprehensive Cancer Clinic 231
Kate Mantilini's Restaurant 235
The Aesthetics of the Present 239
Hysolar Institute Building, University of Stuttgart 245
Ushimado Intrernational Arts Festival Centre 251
Berlin - The Forum of Sand 253
Recent Work 255
Construction, (De)Construction, (Re)Construction 256
San Antonio Conservatory 260
Selected Publications 261
Acknowledgements 262
Index.