Deconstructivism, or Deconstructionism, was a design movement that started in the late 1980's. The aim of the movement was to demonstrate how the piece of art or architecture was constructed while still keeping it functional. The Deconstructivism philosophy is: "architecture is a language capable of communicating meaning and of receiving treatments by methods of linguistic philosophy."
Deconstructivism describes the shift of Post-modernism to "Post-post-modernism, from resurrecting the past in design to deconstructing and "exploding" the piece. Some were influenced by some works in Russian Constructivism, of its experimentation and geometric imbalances. Besides Modernism and Post-modernism, Expressionism, Cubism, Minialism, and Contemporary Art are referred to in Deconstructivism. In architecture, Deconstructivism is opposite to the order of Modernism, moving away from what was previously done and focus on disassembling architecture. The idea of ornament was also rejected in addition to the historical references Post-modernism made to what was rejected by Modernism, making the new movement have principles of modernist anti-historicism.
This movement is non-systematic and unorthodox in its style and characterised by disjointed angles and a sense of unbalance, as if the structure will soon tumble down. There is a manipulation of a structure's surface to further distort and fragment a structure into a form of unpredictability and controlled chaos. Geometry was applied to the function, structure, and spacial aspects of buildings, seeking to create something complex, thought-provoking, and emphasizing conflict within the structure itself.