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1980s onward

When Buildings Stopped Looking Stable

Deconstructivist Architecture

Angular white volumes of the Vitra Design Museum.
The Vitra Design Museum by Frank Gehry.Sandstein · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Source record

The Moment

Conventional assumptions about symmetry, geometry, stability and order were challenged.

The Rethink

Architecture could deliberately make people question what a building was supposed to look like.