Architecture Exam #2 Concepts: Deconstructivism to Post-Digital Trends

What was the significance of the 1988 MoMA Deconstructivist Architecture exhibition?

The break from Modernist stability toward fragmentation and instability.

According to Mark Wigley, what creates space?

Through “inscriptions”—acts of drawing, designing, organizing.

What question does Tschumi ask at Parc de la Villette to challenge architectural norms?

“What is a park?” — questioning typology itself

What is the Jewish Museum in Berlin known for in terms of architectural meaning?

It translates Jewish history into spatial, symbolic form.

What materials did Gehry famously use in the Gehry House?

Sheet metal, glass, chain‑link fencing.

What does Eisenman mean when he says a building “does not have to look like it stands up”?

Function and structure don’t need to be visually expressed.

What does Bachelard emphasize in The Poetics of Space?

Emotional, intimate experience of space (corners, attics, memory).

According to Pallasmaa, how do we experience buildings?

Sequentially, through the senses over time.

What is Zumthor’s primary architectural concern?

Material, atmosphere, and how a building is made.

What does Steven Holl mean when he says a project succeeds when someone can “feel it before they can explain it”?

Architecture is understood through sensory experience before intellectual analysis.

What is a diagram according to Deleuze and Guattari?

An abstract machine that constructs new realities.

What is Koolhaas’s idea of “Bigness”?

Very large buildings behave like cities; program > form.

What does MVRDV use as the starting point for design?

Data: density, statistics, land use, numbers.

What are Mecanoo’s four “P’s”?

People, Place, Purpose, Poetry.

What is UN Studio’s main generator of form?

Movement and circulation.

What does Greg Lynn mean by “animate form”?

Form shaped by forces and motion, not static composition.

What architectural idea does Deleuze’s The Fold inspire?

Continuous, curved, folded geometries (NURBS).

What is Patrik Schumacher’s claim about parametricism?

It’s a new architectural style and paradigm.

What characterizes Zaha Hadid Architects’ parametric work?

Smooth, fluid, continuous systems integrating structure + circulation.

What shift defines Mario Carpo’s “Second Digital Turn”?

From digital standardization → algorithmic variation and mass customization.