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VB: When you say Chicago and New York you mean s
BT: Well, let’s go back a little bit into history. The year is 198
historicist postmodernism. Most architects are rediscoverin
and symbols, coming from 18th or 19th century. The big cor
on their buildings and so on. A few architects, at the time ar
legacy of avant-garde. Among these few architects are peo
Rem Koolhaas, Peter Eisenman, Coop Himmelblau (Wolf P
Among us there were at least two architects who were inter
deconstruction by Jack Derrida. So curators of the show inv
which is deconstruction plus Russian constructivism. But, as
is not a school. It is the title of the exhibition. But what is inte
period in architecture in the 20th century. And we, those few
that conservative period and now look – everybody is doing
BT: Oh! Many! First of all these are time and geography, tim
social, economic, and political context. So there is a very bi
They are: a wish to reinvent architecture, to discover a new
new programs. The Differences are, of course, social, politi
because all of the conservative institutions: the family, the st
series of certainties were destroyed. Russia was an extraor
architecture but in cinema, in poetry, and so on. This was no
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VB: Who in your view was first to use deconstructivis
BT: No, I don’t think so. I think it was about the spirit of that p
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And that is the role of the media. In the 1970’s the media wa
were architectural historians, architectural theorists, and arc
But there are architectural journalists and architecture is pub
manner. And that is an interesting shift.
BT: I think so. These are some of the key pieces of architec
and risk, which are rarely discussed. So I wanted to introduc
beyond professionalism, right? Because everything about o
has, no matter six thousand years ago or today.
BT: There are two reasons. I’m first of all an architect and I h
I’ve been the dean for fifteen years and that is a generation
major statement about architectural education. And now ano
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challenge. I’m very much against the teachers who try to rea
way around. I have a preconceived starting point, but I have
astonished by what the goal is.
VB: What about the fact that there is not a single straig
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