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page081from Building Ideas
As with Derrida’s early preoccupation with
language, there is an attempt to question deeply ingrained conventions, such
that structures of meaning are not naturally “given” but are the fact
historically “constructed”. The metaphorical link with constructing makes
architecture again an important theme – its persistence and all-pervasiveness
makes it a significant target for reappraisal:
This
architecture of architecture has a history; it is historical through and
through. Its heritage inaugurates the intimacy of our economy, the law of our
hearth (oikos), our famili... more ...
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page080from Building Ideas
17 Bernard Tschumi, Parc de la Villette,
Paris, 1985: Superimposition of lines, points and surfaces.(Bernard Tschumi)
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page079from Building Ideas
16 Bernard Tschumi – Parc de la Villette,
Paris, 1982-91. (Jonathan Hale)
series of “follies”, or pavilions in the
part, come to represent the kind of philosophy that Derrida himself is actually
searching for. As he writes of the follies’ challenge to the conventional norms
of the discipline of architecture:
The folies put into operation a general dislocation; they draw into it
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page078from Building Ideas
14 Coop Himmelblau – Rooftop remodeling,
Vienna, 1983-88.(Redrawn by the author after Coop Himmelblau)
15 Bernard Tschumi – Parc de la Villette,
Paris, 1982-91. (Jonathan Hale)
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page077from Building Ideas
13 Daniel Libeskind – Extension to Victoria and Albert Museum (project), London, 1998. (Andrew Putler)
Much recent work in this direction has referred specifically to the philosophy of deconstruction, as inspiration for this kind of challenge to tradition and expectation. Particularly interesting in this regard is the collaboration between Derrida and Peter Eisenman, after he had been invited by the architect to work with him on a portion of the Parcde la Villette in Paris. The most startling aspect of this project for the purpose of our current discussion is the a
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