Giuseppe Terragni: Transformations, Decompositions, Critiques

Peter Eisenman

MIT Press]

Peter Eisenman has been an innovative presence in the field of architecture and architectural theory for more than thirty years. Architect, educator, founder and director of the Institute for Architecture and Urbanism, he has given definition to the principal debates on the architecture of our past, present, and future. In this remarkable collection, nineteen of his most important essays are presented together for the first time. Generously illustrated and with a new introduction by the author, these writings assemble the ideas that both set and provoked contemporary architectural practice and theory. This collection ranges from comprehensive theoretical analyses to close readings of Eisenman's own work and that of such architects as Andrea Palladio, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier, Alison and Peter Smithson, James Stirling, Philip Johnson, and John Hedjuk. Providing new perspectives on these architects and on Eisenman's own methodologies, these writings present an insider's appraisal of the polemics that have defined architecture over the past half century and that continue as one of the major ongoing forces in the discourse today.

Eisenman Inside Out: Selected Writings, 1963-1988

Parenting & Relationships

Family Relationships

Yale University Press

A prominent practitioner, an influential theorist, and an esteemed educator, the architect Peter Eisenman today stands at the center of architectural discourse and debate. This book, a companion volume to Eisenman Inside Out: Selected Writings, 1963–1988, gathers a generous selection of his later writings. In these texts Eisenman undertakes theoretical analyses, close readings of his own works, and innovative assessments of the designs and writings of other architects and critics. In a major introduction to the volume, Jeffrey Kipnis looks closely at Eisenman’s approach toward language and writing, a practice in which architecture itself becomes a form of written theory, as well as at his context within a critical canon that includes Jacques Derrida and Rosalind Krauss. Presenting the range of Eisenman’s important contributions to architectural theory, this collection of nineteen essays provides insight into the architect’s own understandings and methodologies and offers provocative challenges for his readers.

Written into the Void: Selected Writings, 1990-2004

History

Historical Study & Educational Resources

An Architectural Digest profile addressing the question: Is deconstructionist architecture possible?

Deconstruction II (Architectural Design Profile)

Arts & Photography

Daniel Libeskind

Hiromi Fujii

Bernard Tshumi

Morphosis

Architecture

St.Martin's Press

Wexner Center for the Visual Arts (Architectural Design)

Richard Trott

It has been said that Peter Eisenman considers architecture a form of shock therapy: whatever his intent, he has created one of the most controversial bodies of work of any contemporary American architect. This test is an exposition of Peter Eisenman's design philosophy, illustrating his groundbreaking contributions to 20th-century American design. Eisenman's own essays and illustrations explain his diagram-based approach to design, whereby sites and structures can be manipulated in diagram form. The book showcases his work to date - from his earliest house designs to the heralded Wexner Center in Columbus, Ohio, and on to commissions such as the Memorial for the Victims of the Holocaust in Vienna.

PETER EISENMAN DIAGRAM DIARIES /ANGLAIS

History & Criticism

Thames&Hudson

Five Architects: Eisenman, Graves, Gwathmey, Hejduk, Meier

Five Architects, originally published in 1975, grew out of a meeting of the CASE group (Conference of Architects for the Study of the Environment) held at the Museum of Modern Art in 1969. The purpose of this gathering was to exhibit and criticize the work of five architects-Eisenman, Graves, Gwathmey, Hejduk, and Meier-who constituted a New York school, and who are now among the most influential architects working today. The buildings shown here have more diversity than one might expect from a school, but share certain properties of form, scale, and treatment of material. Providing complete drawings and photographic documentation, this collection also includes a comparative critique by Kenneth Frampton, an Introduction by Colin Rowe that suggests a still broader context for the work as a whole, and two short texts in which individual positions are outlined.

Five architects: Eisenman, Graves, Gwathmey, Hejduk, Meier

Wittenborn

Log 13/14, a special double issue, examines the events and aftershocks of 1968 via the subsequent development of architectural and cultural movements over two generations. The 27 entries include: a reassessment of the collapse of the XIVth Triennale in Milan; renascent forms of Beaux-Arts planning in Paris; the semi-mythic origins of contemporary Dubai; NASA's attempt to design the perfect space suit; and the political potential of the building envelope today. Log also revisits seminal statements from Paul Virilio and Yona Friedman on the nature of the 1968 protests in Paris. Both a retrospective and a critique of past and present-day radical architectural and cultural paradigms, Log 13/14 includes essays and texts by: Jean-Louis Cohen; Peter Eisenman; Sylvia Lavin; Markus Miessen; Paola Nicolin; John David Rhodes; Lukasz Stanek; Robert Venturi; Anthony Vidler; and Alejandro Zaera-Polo among others.

Log 13/14

Paul Virilio

Mark C. Taylor

Jean-Louis Cohen

Anthony Vidler

Yona Friedman

Sylvia Lavin

Bernard Tschumi

Alejandro Zaera-Polo

Anyone Corporation

Log 59

Pier Vittorio Aureli

Sanford Kwinter

Valerio Olgiati

David Chalmers

Michael Meredith

Katharine Hayhoe

Elisa Iturbe

Patrik Schumacher

K. Michael Hays

Emanuele Coccia

Caroline Levine

Amale Andraos

Preston Scott Cohen

Andrew Holder

Sean Canty

Anna Neimark

Milton S.F. Curry

Jaffer Kolb

Phyllis Lambert

Meejin Yoon

Chora L Works documents the unprecedented collaboration, initiated in 1985, between philosopher Jacques Derrida and architect Peter Eisenman on a project for the Parc de la Villette in Paris. Woven into the volume are discussion transcripts, candid correspondence, and essays, as well as sketches, presentation drawings, and models. Derrida and Eisenman's design process was guided by Plato's chora text from the Timeaus; their unique reciprocal relationship was an interchange - and transformation - of voices.

Chora L Works: Jacques Derrida and Peter Eisenman

Jacques Derrida

The Monacelli Press

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