Peter Eisenman Livres

Mir war klar, was ich schreiben wollte, sagt Eisenman über seine Dissertation. Eine analytische Arbeit, die in Beziehung zu dem stand, was ich zu sehen gelernt hatte, von Palladio zu Terragni, von Raffael zu Guido Reni hin zu einem irgendwie theoretischen Konstrukt, das mit moderner Architektur in Zusammenhang stehen würde, aber aus dem Blickwinkel einer bestimmten Autonomie der Form. In The Formal Basis of Modern Architecture konfrontiert der international geschätzte - und für sein Holocaust-Mahnmal in Berlin (2005) weltberühmte - US-amerikanische Architekt Peter Eisenman den Historizismus mit einer Theorie und Analyse der Form, deren charakteristische Eigenschaften er für das Fundament architektonischer Komposition hält. Eisenman illustriert seine Beobachtungen mit zahlreichen sehr präzisen Handzeichnungen. Seine Dissertation The Formal Basis of Modern Architecture verfasste Eisenman 1963 an der University of Cambridge. Die Arbeit wurde 2006 als Faksimilesausgabe von Lars Müller Publishers veröffentlicht. Nun ist der Originalinhalt der Publikation wieder in einem kleineren Format erhältlich.

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.

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

Focusing on the concept of blurring, this collection features seventeen design projects, both realized and theoretical, alongside twelve insightful essays. It explores the interplay between different architectural elements and contexts, encouraging a deeper understanding of interstitial spaces. The work challenges conventional boundaries in design, showcasing innovative ideas that provoke thought and inspire creativity in the field of architecture.

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.

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.

This book highlights three separate conversations the author had with the architect, Peter Eisenman, at his New York City studio in October 2003, June 2009, and February 2016.

This publication presents American architect Peter Eisenman's prize-winning competition design for an office and housing estate in Frankfurt Rebstockpark in which Eisenman realized his philosophical approach to architecture.

Aldo Rossi was a practicing architect and leader of the Italian architectural movement La Tendenza and one of the most influential theorists of the twentieth century. The Architecture of the City is his major work of architectural and urban theory. In part a protest against functionalism and the Modern Movement, in part an attempt to restore the craft of architecture to its position as the only valid object of architectural study, and in part an analysis of the rules and forms of the city's construction, the book has become immensely popular among architects and design students.

In den hier versammelten Aufsätzen unterzieht Eisenman die traditionellen Konzepte der Architekturtheorie einer kritischen Lektüre, indem er Architektur als Schrift, als Diagramm oder als Raum der Differenz interpretiert und auf diese Weise neuartige Begriffe in die Diskussion einführt oder aus anderen Theorieansätzen übernimmt, die er für die Konstitution des architektonischen Objekts, wie es bezüglich seines funktionalen, ästhetischen und bedeutungstragenden Wesens gedacht wird, in Anschlag bringt. Es erweist sich als Simulakrum, das nicht zuletzt durch Bedingungen der Virtualität seiner Erinnerungsfunktion entsteht. Die Vielfalt der aufgeworfenen Perspektiven konturiert so Eisenmans eigenständigen Beitrag zur postmetaphysischen Architekturtheorie und -praxis