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Deconstructivism came to public notice with the 1982 Parc de la Villette architectural design competition, in particular the entry from Jacques Derrida and Peter Eisenman [3] and the winning entry by Bernard Tschumi, as well as the Museum of Modern Art’s 1988 Deconstructivist Architecture exhibition in New York, organized by Philip Johnson and Mark Wigley.
8000 years – the last 1000 years (fine grid) is expanded in the timeline below; 1000AD—present. 1750–1900. 6000BC–1000AD • 1000–1750 • 1750–1900 ...
The Victorian Era was a time of giant leaps forward in technology and society, such as iron bridges, aqueducts, sewer systems, roads, canals, trains, and factories. As engineers, inventors, and businessmen they reshaped much of the British Empire, including the UK, India, Australia, South Africa, and Canada, and influenced Europe and the United ...
His works always have at least some element of deconstructivism; [66] he has been called "the apostle of chain-link fencing and corrugated metal siding". [67] However, a retrospective exhibit at New York's Whitney Museum in 1988 revealed that he is also a sophisticated classical artist who knows European art history and contemporary sculpture ...
Jacques Derrida (/ ˈ d ɛr ɪ d ə /; French: [ʒak dɛʁida]; born Jackie Élie Derrida; [6] 15 July 1930 – 9 October 2004) was a French philosopher. He developed the philosophy of deconstruction, which he utilized in a number of his texts, and which was developed through close readings of the linguistics of Ferdinand de Saussure and Husserlian and Heideggerian phenomenology.
Streamline Moderne is an international style of Art Deco architecture and design that emerged in the 1930s. Inspired by aerodynamic design, it emphasized curving forms, long horizontal lines, and sometimes nautical elements.
In his book Moderne Architektur (1895) he had called for a more rationalist style of architecture, based on "modern life". [17] He designed a stylized ornamental metro station at Karlsplatz in Vienna (1888–89), then an ornamental Art Nouveau residence, Majolika House (1898), before moving to a much more geometric and simplified style, without ...
Note: there is overlap with what is considered "contemporary art" and "modern art." Contemporary Greek art – 1945 Greece; Vienna School of Fantastic Realism – 1946, Austria; Neo-Dada – 1950s, international; International Typographic Style – 1950s, Switzerland; Soviet Nonconformist Art – 1953 – 1986, Soviet Union