Architectural possibilities in the work of Eisenman /
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 Peter Eisenman's ap...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
[2023].
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| Series: | Routledge research in architecture.
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| Summary: | 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 Peter Eisenman's approach to architectural form generation and thinking. It does this through a thematic and formal analysis of main projects and writings from the mid-1970s to mid-1990s. Following an introductory chapter addressing potentialities, the book is organized in two parts. The first part focuses on key writings of Eisenman, framing the close reading around a practice of resistance, the architect's approach to history as analysis and the transformative conceptualization 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, organize this part of the book. Previously unpublished material from the Peter Eisenman Archive, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal, provides primary source material.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. |
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| Physical Description: | xi, 156 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0367181835 1032379553 9780367181833 9781032379555 |