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Deconstructivism Moderate

Origin: Greek suffix -ism

Deconstructivism has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

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Noun
1

a school of architecture based on the philosophical theory of deconstruction

2

A development of postmodern architecture that began in the late 1980s, characterized by ideas of fragmentation, an interest in manipulating ideas of a structure's surface or skin, and non-rectilinear shapes which serve to distort and dislocate.

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