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Chapter 27 Theoretical Basis? Is Philosophy Enough?
Teacher Guo tidied up the things on the table.

He nodded towards Zhou Yue, put on a template-like smile, and sat aside, leaving the front seat to him.

"Dear experts, dear leaders." Zhou Yue also bowed slightly, and then began to switch the PPT to the first page, which was the rendering of the building.

This is what the building will look like after it is completed.

Zhou Yue took a look at the drawing, then turned around and said, "My name is Zhou Yue. I designed this drawing. Professor Guo is my teacher and he guided me in my graduation project."

"Just now, Professor Chris asked about the design concept of this building, or the design ideas and system. I would like to try to answer this question."

"I call this architectural philosophy 'deconstructivism'."

Although the masters of deconstructionism in previous lives have been desperately emphasizing that they are not deconstructionists, you are a deconstructionist, and your whole family is a deconstructionist!

However, that label is firmly attached to those top designers.

"This kind of deconstructivism can perhaps be simply understood as disrupting and reorganizing, which is different from our architectural structuralism, where structure is stable, black and white, and a binary design."

"Let me first talk about the concept of deconstructionism. I can roughly summarize it into two points. One is decentralization, and the other is to pay attention to diversified marginal structures."

“Decentralization is also easy to understand. We know that everything has a meaning, a fixed meaning that we give it.”

"This meaning is the center of our view of things. For our architecture, it is the traditional structure, beams, slabs, columns, etc."

"For example, this wooden structure under my hand right now, we call it a table, right?"

"But, as a product of reality, how do we define a table now? Why don't we call a chair a table? This is because we have defined a table. Tables can have all kinds of strange shapes, and some designs are even infinitely close to chairs, but we simply define it as a table."

“This is the meaning of things.”

"For us architects, we define a building as a building that is designed to be easy to live in, even the most typical traditional square box-type building structure."

“This is a manifestation of structuralism.”

“It’s either black or white, a binary opposition. Use your definition to determine whether it can be called architecture.”

“What I mean by decentralization is to blur the concept of meaning. Instead of discussing whether this thing is defined as architecture, I focus on the thing itself and let this meaning truly serve architecture!”

“One of my design concepts is to make things that are not square boxes also be called architecture.”

“It may be a bit confusing, but I can put it simply.”

“It’s non-duality.”

"Between yes and no, find the 'or'! That is, choose or between yes or no!"

“Don’t assume that things are black and white, don’t seek the only truth about things, because truth comes in many forms and is constantly changing.”

“The second is to pay attention to the diverse structure of things, and also pay attention to those marginal products.”

“Simply put, it is about capturing forgotten or neglected details and using them to re-assume and analyze, because we have decentralized and made meaning into a concept that is no longer unified.”

"I'm still using this table as an example."

“Since you have blurred the concept of the table as a table, you need to disassemble it again, separate its parts, focus on these parts, and redefine the use value of the table with the functions embodied by each part.”

Zhou Yue paused for a moment when he said this. “Isn’t what I said easy to understand?” “Decentralization means that this table may not be a table.”

"Focusing on diversity and edge structures means that we separate the table legs, table tops and other structures, and reconsider their respective functions to combine them into a physical object called a 'table'."

"It's still the simplest way to say it, which is to disrupt and reorganize, reconsider the functions of each part of the table, and the effect of the reorganization as a whole."

Zhou Yue felt that he had made himself clear.

Moreover, his theory has been infinitely simplified, making it easy to understand and accept, and it is only the theoretical basis for this project.

In fact, the "Deconstructionist Philosophy" course he had taken a few days ago was far more complicated than this.

But he couldn't talk about philosophy here, so he could only summarize it briefly in a few sentences.

Then he raised his head slightly.

I saw that everyone was standing there in a daze.

Aren’t they talking about architecture?

At best, it would just add an architectural aesthetic, but this person came up and talked philosophy directly to them?

Even Teacher Guo standing by looked at him with wide eyes.

Wow, I asked you to talk about your design concept, but now you come and teach us?
And it is directly a new term, so isn’t the theoretical basis here?
No matter what you say about it being unsystematic or having no design concept, the remarks just made are enough to prove that this building is indeed the result of deep thought.

Is there anything more profound and basic than philosophical questions?

"So, Xiao Yue is here to teach us?" After Dean He recovered from his shock, a smile gradually appeared on his face. "But I understand what he said. It's about splitting a whole into different individuals. These different individuals have different functions. After these functions are reorganized, they may not necessarily have the necessary connection with the original whole."

"He is a thoughtful designer. I didn't know how he would respond before, but now it seems that he has already made up his mind."

Lu Qianran also just came back to her senses.

"I didn't expect him to think this way."

Lu Qianran looked up and saw her cell phone was on, with the words "deconstructionism" clearly displayed on the screen. Unfortunately, no one had ever proposed this term before.

"So, this architectural viewpoint was created by him?"

Lu Qianran suppressed the shock in her heart.

I just felt that I didn't seem to know much about the person in front of me.

When it comes to architectural design, he is more adept than those experienced designers.

Now we have also put so much effort into architectural concepts.

"Could it be that he is really a genius?"

"Did he create this concept himself?" Cao Kai also had a complicated look. "Even if he didn't create it himself, it was the first one to be applied to architecture. There's no need to make any far-fetched claims now. He might really have thought so."

"That is to say, as long as people in the construction industry recognize him, even with just this one building and one concept, it is enough to give him a separate page in today's architectural history!"

(End of this chapter)