16. The New-Normal Education Model in Architecture: Digital Deconstruction

This paper aims to initiate discussion about the digital deconstruction of architecture as an education model in architecture. This begins by briefly outlining the architectural education and Covid-19 pandemic. Then, the relationship between deconstruction and architectural thinking is discussed in how it relates to education and, more specifically, discourse and representation of architecture. There is then a short literature review about the deconstruction theory and binary oppositions. The conclusion presents the objective, scope, definition, and method of the problem at the conceptual level using students’ digital works from the ‘Architecture and Deconstruction’ elective course. Jacques Derrida’s binary oppositions, which are used as a tool of conceptualization, have become an important tool that allows the exemplification of deconstruction theory in architecture. In conclusion, the paper aims total of 148 digital representations (79 images in buildings-spaces title and 69 images in portraits-bodies title) which are an indication that another experiences and new discourses are possible in architectural education through digital data.