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3 COLLAGE

The Art of Deconstruction Break/suppress the dominant narrative to reveal an alternative reading. It is not simply the technique of an architect who knows how to deconstruct what has been constructed but a probing which touches upon the technique itself, upon the authority of the architectural metaphor and thereby constitutes its own architectural rhetoric. “Could architecture be freed from the prevalence of the principles of classical aesthetics? Could architecture abandon functionalism?”