"The ancient Greeks believed that harmony is the key to beauty and that geometrical proportion is the key to harmony." while, forms and compositions of the deconstructivist architecture appear distorted, dislocated, and fragmented; with the final product being unpredictable and shows controlled chaos.
Since the human brain is prone to seek order and reasoning through proportional systems, why deconstructive architecture became publicly accepted and celebrated in spite of being known for not following basic design principles and harmony rules?
I think deconstructive architecture is publicly accepted and celebrated because it must be planned and well organized. It may seem not to follow design principles as acknowledged today but it is a step towards following the expected design principles in the future.
1. I'm not sure if deconstructive architecture has ever been accepted by the majority of people. It was more welcomed by a minority of intellectuals.
2. At the first glance, deconstructive architecture seems to undermine many of the predefined principles. However, it introduces new principles, strategies and design processes in each project. Peter Eisenman's early projects are examples of such (re-)introduction of new structures of thinking, space, and design.
Olubimbola Oladimeji Thanks for your answer.
I believe that all types of building designs "must be planned and well organized"..... also regarding the future, It seems that parametric design has more potential to set the expected design principles in the future.
Aryan Shahabian ... your first point is interesting indeed.. are you familiar with any research that addressed the acceptability of deconstructive architecture?... it would be useful to share :)
from my understanding, the wide spreed of the work of deconstrative architects and the fact that many of them became famous and in high demand indicates the acceptability of their design school.
Regarding your second point... i fully agree..., what my question is trying to address is the question of whether architects can design independently from proportional systems and design principles or not.
@Chaham
I don't have a statistically clear or direct evidence for my first point but I did an interview in 2005 with Bahram Shirdel. I believe he indirectly mentioned that fact. The interview is available online (link below) but it's in Persian (Farsi).
http://aryan-sh.blogspot.com/2011/09/interview-with-bahram-shirdel-aryan.html?m=1
In my opinion, because its philosophical roots in the works of post-structuralism in linguistic studies, its essence of self interpretation and appreciation of individualism, which leads to a new and innovative form and style of architecture. although we can not deny the effect of post-modernism with both its success and failures which I believe prepared the atmosphere for manifestation of deconstruction.
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