Making Deconstruction or Cow Was the Show by Catherine Ingraham

Week 4d précis: Making deconstruction or cow was the show by Catherine Ingraham
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Catherine Ingraham’s article “Making deconstruction or cow was the show” seeks to clarify the aspects that differentiate deconstruction form deconstructivism. Ingraham bolsters her claim by challenging the assertions of Joseph Giovanni an architectural critic for the New York Times who claims to have invented the word deconstructivism. Ingraham’s purpose is to highlight the lack of critical debates on the dichotomy of deconstruction/ deconstructivism, in order to begin a conversation on issues that have often been neglected. Ingraham targets the critical theorists of architecture who often fail to distinguish between deconstruction and deconstructivism.
Ingraham disapproves the prevailing notions on a “Deconstructivism Architecture Exhibition,” which was anything deconstructivism only by name, given that the architects’ works were alr...