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From deconstructive + -ism.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Today it means: 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. Full definition →
From deconstructive + -ism.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.