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noun
A development of postmodern architecture that began in the late 1980s, characterized by ideas of fragmentation, an interest in manipulating ideas of a structure's surface or skin, and non-rectilinear shapes which serve to distort and dislocate.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: architecture
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noun
The practice of deconstructing dishes.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: cooking, food, lifestyle
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noun
a school of architecture based on the philosophical theory of deconstruction
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: school
History
From deconstructive + -ism.
