Gehry, Hadid, Libeskind, Eisenman
Emerging in the late 1980s, Deconstructivism challenged the ordered geometry of modernism with fragmented forms, sharp angles, and apparent instability. Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Bilbao (1997), Zaha Hadid's fluid curves, and Daniel Libeskind's angular Jewish Museum Berlin created buildings that seemed to defy structural logic.
Freed architecture from the grid, proving that buildings could express emotion, narrative, and philosophical ideas through form. Enabled the parametric design revolution powered by computational tools.