San Diego, November 25, 2011. Third Avenue Pedestrian Bridge.
San Diego, November 25, 2011. Third Avenue bridge and context (canyon).
Bridge, De-constructed.
” In recent years , the modern understanding of social responsibility as functional program has been superseded by a concern for context. But contextualism has been used as an excuse for mediocrity, for a dumb servility within the familiar. Since deconstructivist architecture seeks the unfamiliar within the familiar, it displaces the context rather than acquiesce to it. What makes it disturbing is the way deconstructivist architecture finds the unfamiliar already hidden within the familiar context. By its intervention, elements of the context become defamiliarized. In one project, towers are turned over on their sides, while in others, bridges are tilted up to become towers.”
Mark Wigley
sketchbloom.com 
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