The Emperor Has No Clothes is an old adage but in the sad case of Deconstructivism it is
absolutely appropriate as Deconstructivism is really nothing more than Modernism in a new
guise. Modernists notably the Bauhäusler aimed for the clean slate jettisoning everything
that went before. Yet at times they claimed links with antecedents to give a spurious
historical ancestry to their aims and creations. These questionable links and precedents are
now being claimed for the works of Deconstructivists by sympathetic architects and their
supporters. The second edition of this book is the beginning of a long-overdue counterattack.
