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Deconstructivism vs Deconstructivist - What's the difference?

deconstructivism | deconstructivist |

As nouns the difference between deconstructivism and deconstructivist

is that deconstructivism is (architecture) 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 while deconstructivist is a proponent of deconstructivism.

As an adjective deconstructivist is

of or pertaining to deconstructivism.

deconstructivism

English

Noun

(-) (wikipedia deconstructivism)
  • (architecture) 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.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2007, date=February 18, author=, title=English Renaissance; ‘Not for Sale’; Abu Dhabi Arts District; Robert Moses, work=New York Times citation
  • , passage=As an artist I have to ask: How much God is there in art theories like appropriation, deconstructivism , simulation and consumerism, which from the mid-1970s on have dominated the syllabus of many institutions that teach, critique and exhibit art? }}

    Synonyms

    * deconstruction

    See also

    * constructivism

    deconstructivist

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of or pertaining to deconstructivism.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2007, date=October 4, author=Mike Albo, title=Abandoned by Principle, Seduced by a Sweater, work=New York Times citation
  • , passage=It’s a studied disruption, which is fitting, since the Belgian-born Martin Margiela, who got his start designing for Jean Paul Gaultier in the ’80s, was the progenitor of the seam-exposed inside-out deconstructivist aesthetic of the late ’80s and early ’90s. }}

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A proponent of deconstructivism.