of note from this past weekend was the passing of french theorist jacques derrida. while many would find his theories and literature esoteric and unintelligible (fuck if i knew half the things he posited), his influence was unquestionable. himself influenced by the german philosophers husserl and heidegger (another oft-cited theorist in the architectural circles), his deconstructionist theories pervaded a variety of design fields and social sciences, of which included architectural design. in architecture, decon rejected the notion of clean modernism and symmetry, instead destroying linearity and reconsituting the forms into complex spaces. within the works of morphosis, eisenman, liebeskind, eric owen moss, etc could you see derridas theories in architectural form, as well as innmerous other fields of literature, political sciences, etc…
jacques derrida 1930-2004
