About Deconstructivism
A system drawn from the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao: about 33,000 titanium sheets, each 0.38 mm thick, wrapped over curves that were computed in CATIA and set against rectilinear blocks of Spanish limestone and glass curtain wall. The ground is daylight titanium; panels turn pewter like the metal under Basque cloud.
Panels tilt a few degrees and clip each other, but every line of Montserrat stays square to the page. The fragments look loose and are fully resolved. One red button, nothing else shouts.
- Origin
- Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain
- Era
- 1988 MoMA exhibition; Guggenheim Bilbao designed 1991–93, opened October 1997; movement active 1990–2020
- Key figures
- Frank Gehry · Thomas Krens · Philip Johnson · Mark Wigley
- Movements
- Deconstructivism · Computer-aided free-form architecture
Deconstructivism design spec
Colors
Background
Surface
Primary
Secondary
Accent
Text
Typography
MontserratHeadings
IBM Plex MonoMono
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