constructivism

Meanings

1. A Russian movement in modern art characterized by the creation of nonrepresentational geometric objects using industrial materials.
2. A style of modern architecture that flourished in the Soviet Union in the 1920s and early 1930s.
3. A philosophy that asserts the need to construct a mathematical object to prove it exists.
4. A psychological epistemology which argues that humans generate knowledge and meaning from their experiences.

Etymology

From constructive + -ism.