Disruptive Paradox

Deconstructive Architecture and its Subversive Power

Since the 1980s, deconstructivist architecture has attracted attention with its radical de-parture from orthogonal structures and its aesthetic boldness. As a provocative counter-model to traditional building regulations, it has sparked a lasting discourse on form and meaning in architectural theory. But precisely because of their exceptional forms and broken angles, the architects were quickly dismissed by many critics as attention-seeking and purely provocative. Even as the term ‘deconstructivist’ was emerging in in the field of architecture, the prevailing opinion was that architects had nothing to do with the philosophy of deconstruction…

A Memoir of My Reading

I do not know where I was taught to read, or exactly when, or by whom. At the least I reckon that I have been reading for 66 years now, because I am now 71. Although I have many very early memories, including crib and high-chair memories, the oblivescence of my instruction in reading indicates to me that I immediately adopted reading into my inner self, as if it were such a basic part of myself, like my eyes or my limbs, that it had no origin other than my coming into…