Architectural Possibilities In The Work Of Eisenman

Author : Michael Jasper
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-11
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780429594687

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Architectural Possibilities in the Work of Eisenman by Michael Jasper Pdf

This book examines the central decades of Peter Eisenman’s work through a formal and thematic analysis of key architectural projects and writings, revealing underlying characteristics and arguing for their productive continuity and transformative role. The book explores Eisenman’s approach to architectural form generation and thinking. It does this through a thematic and formal analysis of projects and writings from the mid-1970s to the mid-1990s. Following an introductory chapter addressing the theme of potentialities, the book is organised in two parts. The first part focuses on key period writings of Eisenman, framing the close reading around a practice of resistance, the architect’s approach to history as analysis, and the transformative conceptualisation of time. In the second part, the book undertakes an analysis of select projects from the 1980s and 1990s. Three formal preoccupations and conceptual orientations – ground manipulations, figuration, and spatial events – organise this part of the book. Previously unpublished material from the Peter Eisenman fonds, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal, provides primary source material. A concluding chapter addresses Eisenman’s teaching, its relation to his larger project, and possible legacies for educators, practitioners, scholars, and theorists.

Author : Peter Eisenman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015040323639

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Re-working Eisenman by Peter Eisenman Pdf

A presentation of writings by and about Peter Eisenman, arguably the most significant architect working today. The book analyzes the whole spectrum of subjects covered in the architect/philosopher's oeuvre. Seminal texts are included that show how his theories have developed over time.

Author : Stefano Corbo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317132318

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From Formalism to Weak Form: The Architecture and Philosophy of Peter Eisenman by Stefano Corbo Pdf

Peter Eisenman is one of the most controversial protagonists of the architectural scene, who is known as much for his theoretical essays as he is for his architecture. While much has been written about his built works and his philosophies, most books focus on one or the other aspect. By structuring this volume around the concept of form, Stefano Corbo links together Eisenman’s architecture with his theory. From Formalism to Weak Form: The Architecture and Philosophy of Peter Eisenman argues that form is the sphere of mediation between our body, our inner world and the exterior world and, as such, it enables connections to be made between philosophy and architecture. From the start of his career on, Eisenman has been deeply interested in the problem of form in architecture and has constantly challenged the classical concept of it. For him, form is not simply a cognitive tool that determines a physical structure, which discriminates all that is active from what is passive, what is inside from what is outside. He has always tried to connect his own work with the cultural manifestations of the time: firstly under the influence of Colin Rowe and his formalist studies; secondly, by re-interpreting Chomsky’s linguistic theories; in the 80’s, by collaborating with Derrida and his de-constructivist approach; more recently,by discovering Henri Bergson's idea of Time. These different moments underline different phases, different projects, different programmatic manifestos; and above all, an evolving notion of form. Taking a multi-disciplinary approach based on the intersections between architecture and philosophy, this book investigates all these definitions and, in doing so, provides new insights into and a deeper understanding of the complexity of Eisenman’s work.

Author : Peter Eisenman
Publisher : Books Nippan
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UCSD:31822021297148

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Eisenman Architects by Peter Eisenman Pdf

In both these respects, Peter Eisenman differs not only from other architechts of his own generation, but from nearly all other architects working today.

Author : Michael Jasper
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-21
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000869194

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Trajectories in Architecture by Michael Jasper Pdf

Trajectories in Architecture: Plan, Sensation, Temporality presents a compelling examination of underlying issues in late-twentieth-century architecture. Three formal preoccupations and conceptual orientations are used as guiding threads or trajectories. These three trajectories – the plan as conceptual device, a logic of sensation, and temporalities – serve to organise individual chapters in the central sections of the book and provide a new lens to the study of period work, revealing architectural conditions and consequent spatial effects little explored to date. Trajectories in Architecture adds to scholarship and expands our understanding of the role of conceptual and formal criteria in the analysis and creation of works of architecture. The book provides potentially transformative new interpretations of influential architects and key projects from the last half of the twentieth century to reveal new alignments and potentialities in architecture’s recent past as a contribution to identifying future possibilities. In so doing, the book argues for the still-latent potential in modern architecture’s traditions and design principles and their future expression. Trajectories in Architecture includes analysis of significant projects of Le Corbusier, Peter Eisenman, Zaha Hadid, John Hejduk, Louis I. Kahn, and I. M. Pei.

Author : Peter Eisenman,Elisa Iturbe
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-07
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780691203911

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Lateness by Peter Eisenman,Elisa Iturbe Pdf

A provocative case for historical ambiguity in architecture by one of the field's leading theorists Conceptions of modernity in architecture are often expressed in the idea of the zeitgeist, or "spirit of the age," an attitude toward architectural form that is embedded in a belief in progressive time. Lateness explores how architecture can work against these linear currents in startling and compelling ways. In this incisive book, internationally renowned architect Peter Eisenman, with Elisa Iturbe, proposes a different perspective on form and time in architecture, one that circumvents the temporal constraints on style that require it to be "of the times"—lateness. He focuses on three twentieth-century architects who exhibited the qualities of lateness in their designs: Adolf Loos, Aldo Rossi, and John Hejduk. Drawing on the critical theory of Theodor Adorno and his study of Beethoven's final works, Eisenman shows how the architecture of these canonical figures was temporally out of sync with conventions and expectations, and how lateness can serve as a form of release from the restraints of the moment. Bringing together architecture, music, and philosophy, and drawing on illuminating examples from the Renaissance and Baroque periods, Lateness demonstrates how today's architecture can use the concept of lateness to break free of stylistic limitations, expand architecture's critical capacity, and provide a new mode of analysis.

Author : Stan Allen
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015058907042

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Tracing Eisenman by Stan Allen Pdf

Perhaps more than any other architect practicing today, Peter Eisenman has made a career out of devising a dialectic of oppositions in architecture. With references to societal alienation and existing architectural forms, his work derives much from Friedrich Nietzsche, Noam Chomsky, and Jacques Derrida. He led the loosely knit group of architects known as "The New York Five" (which included John Hejduk, Michael Graves, Charles Gwathmey, and Richard Meier), who made an effort to introduce a theory and artistry of modernist architecture as rigorous as that of the European avant-garde. This is the first comprehensive single-volume overview ever published on Eisenman's buildings and projects, from his first work, House I (1960), to his most recent projects, currently under construction in Spain and Germany. The book includes all the projects Eisenman has created, with essays from international architects and critics, including Greg Lynn, Sanford Kwinter, and Stan Allen.Eisenman currently teaches at New York's Cooper Union and at Princeton University. He has designed a wide range of projects, including the Wexner Center at Ohio State University, which received a 1993 National Honor Award from the American Institute of Architects, and the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin, which opened in spring 2005.

Author : Vladan Djokić,Petar Bojanić
Publisher : Mimesis
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-30T00:00:00+02:00
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9788869771132

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Peter Eisenman by Vladan Djokić,Petar Bojanić Pdf

Peter Eisenman discusses with architects and philosophers: Jörg H. Gleiter (Germany), Kim Förster (Switzerland), Preston Scott Cohen (USA), Emmanuel Petit (USA), Mario Carpo (USA), Sarah M. Whiting (USA), Manuel Orazi (Italy), John McMorrough (USA), Gabriele Mastrigli (Italy), Panayotis Pangalos (Greece), Cynthia Davidson (USA), Ingeborg M. Rocker (USA), Alejandro Zaera-Polo (USA), Djordje Stojanović (Serbia), Greg Lynn (USA) performing on the stage for two days in Belgrade. Through the structure of the monograph, the book represents a dynamic approach to the development of contemporary architectural thought. The dialogue between architects and philosophers with different social and cultural roots creates new agreements and reflections.

Author : Peter Eisenman,YALE UNIV PR
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0300090080

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Eisenman Inside Out by Peter Eisenman,YALE UNIV PR Pdf

Essais sur l'architecture par l'architecte Eisenman.

Author : Peter Eisenman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Architectural design
ISBN : UCSD:31822035440163

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Peter Eisenman by Peter Eisenman Pdf

Impregnated with "culture" in the broadest sense, the works of Peter Eisenman reflect many years of important study on the meaning and sense of design. Architecture understood as History, as Philosophy, as Art, as Mathematics, as Literature, Architecture understood - as it should be that is - as a strict discipline that aims to recover its operational fields, defining with precision its limits and the potential for a profession that must constantly face destabilising visual and technological systems. Within history and yet outside it so that it can continue, within Tradition yet outside of tradition in order to avoid becoming sterile, the architecture of Peter Eisenman does not aim to console with the simple suggestion of a difficult-to-define aesthetic or the illusion of an evanescent technique. The unpredictability of his work anchors design to individuation and the clarification of its objectives by focussing on the value of the sign understood as a fundamental conceptual expression and not as simple formal distortion. The validity of this formidable theoretical system intended to return a renewed and personal linguistic system to fields of architecture, is confirmed by examining the continued expansion of the territorial system, as evidenced by projects on a territorial scale such as the Memorial of Berlin or the Cultural Centre of Galizia, the most recent projects which demonstrate the vitality of a design system that is constantly renewing itself.

Author : Peter Eisenman,Alan Balfour
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015035376808

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Cities of Artificial Excavation by Peter Eisenman,Alan Balfour Pdf

Author : Peter Eisenman
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300111118

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Written Into the Void by Peter Eisenman Pdf

This volume gathers a selection of architect Peter Eisenman's later writings. In these texts, he undertakes a variety of tasks, including theoretical analyses, close readings of his own works, and innovative assessments of the designs and writings of other architects and critics.

Author : Eisenman Architects
Publisher : Lars Müller Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 3037780819

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Eisenmanual by Eisenman Architects Pdf

Eisenmanual systematically registers and maps the major theoretical and formal themes in architecture that architect Peter Eisenman has developed in his work over the past forty years. This compact and multilayered volume is a comprehensive handbook to his texts and projects and their simultaneous and overlapping development since his doctoral thesis, "The Formal Basis of Modern Architecture," written in 1963. Literally a printed "hypertext," the manual weaves a selection of 80 texts and 46 projects, both built and unbuilt, through a series of synoptic and conceptual maps, a cartography of the "conceptual city" of Eisenman that also cross reference his work through a series of conceptual fields. The many "outside" influences on his work are included in a matrix of references that both unveils and opens up the complexity of the architect’s thinking. An index and a dictionary provide additional ways to approach Eisenman’s development of theoretical concepts in relationship to making architecture. A member of a generation of architects for whom the practice of architecture cannot be separated from thinking or writing about architecture, Eisenman has produced a body of work unparalleled in architecture today. In Eisenmanual, the multiple readings of his work will become accessible and indispensable through its visually friendly reader’s guide format.

Author : Luca Galofaro
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 3764360941

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Digital Eisenman by Luca Galofaro Pdf

How should an innovative architect react today to the electronic revolution which is taking place? This work explores the answer by looking at the work of New York architect, Peter Eisenman. It includes a selection of excepts from Eisenman's writings and an analysis of some of his projects.

Author : Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : New York : Oxford University Press
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015012229996

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Five Architects by Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) Pdf

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. Collectively, their work makes a modest claim: it is only architecture, not the salvation of man and the redemption of the earth.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. Now back in,print, Five Architects serves as a reference to the early work of some of America's most important architects and provides us with a glimpse back at the direction of architecture as they saw it over twenty years ago.