The Architecture of Deconstruction: Derrida's Haunt

by Mark Wigley

Book Overview

Nowhere, Mark Wigley asserts, are the stakes higher for deconstruction than in architecture--architecture is the Achilles' heel of deconstructive discourse, the point of vulnerability upon which all of its arguments depend. In this book Wigley redefines the question of deconstruction and architecture. By locating the architecture already hidden within deconstructive discourse, he opens up more radical possibilities for both architecture and deconstruction,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262731142
• ISBN13: 9780262731140
• Release Date: August 1995
• Publisher: Mit Press
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher