No Matter: Theories and Practices of the Ephemeral in Architecture by Karandinou Anastasia; Canniffe Dr Eamonn;

Author:Karandinou, Anastasia; Canniffe, Dr Eamonn;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor and Francis

Thus, the ‘traditional’ elements of architecture – within the deconstructive/ reconstructive context that Derrida sets them in – are opened up and’reconstructed along other axes’.157 Both the form of the ‘folies’ and the overall stance towards the possible situations that they create open up and reconstruct the way in which the program and the event-to-take-place are considered.158 The design of the space demonstrates, or else actualizes, an open way of addressing the issue of potential; the fact that the space is open to different functions, even beyond those that the architects imagined or initially indicated.

However, projects like this one have been criticized for being a purely formal representation of the complex situation of processes and forces that they describe. Karsten Harries concurs:

Mark Wigley is right to call architecture the Achilles’ heel of deconstruction, a place where deconstruction exhibits its vulnerability with unusual clarity, as is demonstrated by Derrida’s collaboration with Bernard Tschumi and Peter Eisenman – a collaboration that threatens to reduce deconstructive discourse to no more than a curiously cerebral kind of decoration.159

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