. "Deconstructivism is a development of postmodern architecture that began in the late 1980s. It is influenced by the theory of \"Deconstruction\", which is a form of semiotic analysis. It is characterized by fragmentation, an interest in manipulating a structure's surface, skin, non-rectilinear shapes which appear to distort and dislocate elements of architecture, such as structure and envelope."@en . .