<DIV>&quot;The Emperor Has No Clothes&quot; 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.&nbsp;Modernists, notably the Bauhäusler, aimed for the clean slate, jettisoning everything that went before.&nbsp;Yet, at times, they claimed links with antecedents to give a spurious historical ancestry to their aims and creations.&nbsp;These questionable links and precedents are now being claimed for the works of Deconstructivists by sympathetic architects and their supporters.&nbsp;The second edition of this book is the beginning of a long-overdue counterattack.&nbsp;</DIV>