Abstract:In the context of architecture,“postmodernism”and“deconstructivism”are often considered to be the opposites of“modernism”and“structuralism”, while French architect Jean Nouvel is usually put in the latter frames. In fact, however, Nouvel’s architectural aesthetics shows a strong postmodern and deconstructive tendency in the philosophical sense, especially reflected in the prominent“ambiguity”and avoidance of style and form in his works. This article analyzes the deconstructive tendency reflected in Nouvel’s architectural aesthetics from several perspectives, including the characteristics of decentralization, the overlap of reality and illusion, the dissolution of traditional architectural concepts and the style and form that are difficult to classify, as well as how his contextualism fits into this postmodern deconstruction, and try to clarify some long-standing misunderstandings about deconstruction/deconstructivism due to the misleading Chinese translation, so as to gain some new insights of architectural designing.