"The act of putting aside or even banishing rationalism and scientific theory, in favor of questionable instinctive, formal selections clearly resembles the way a cult functions. And yet, this is also how deconstruction propagates among architects." Nikos Karidis

"I have just finished reading this long-awaited book. It´s worth reading, even if you do not need convincing that Decon is a fraud. The sober revelation is the extent of the fraud." Andres Duany

"Derrida has become a “virus” that has infected Decon architecture and, as a virus, reproducing itself endlessly, has killed off connections to the past, humanity, and context."
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"This collection of essays by Salingaros and his co-authors, among them Christopher Alexander, takes the reader on a trip through some of the darkest aspects of modernist and post-modern architecture."
Read the complete review by Isaac Meir

"This book is the beginning of a long-overdue counterattack"
Read the complete review byJames Stevens Curl

"The essays dealing with Deconstructionist Architects were some of the best. 'Death, Life, and Libeskind' looks at Libeskind's WTC design, and compares it to his design for the Jewish Museum in Berlin. For the Jewish Museum, Libeskind uses a geometry of death to create his effect, a valid commemoration of the Holocaust. Yet in the WTC design, a site meant to represent new hope and rebirth, Libeskind uses exactly the same disorientating and sickening geometry though he labels it with different words."
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