Peter Eisenman

Wexner Center, at Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, 1983 to 1989.

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(b. Newark, New Jersey 1932)

Peter Eisenman was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1932. He studied at Cornell and Columbia Universities and then at Cambridge University in England. He taught at Cambridge, Princeton and the Cooper Union in New York, where he was founder and director of the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies.

Until recently, few of his designs had been built. As a result, most attention has focused on his architectural ideas which attempt to create contextually disconnected architecture.

Eisenman has always sought somewhat obscure parallels between his architectural works and philosophical or literary theory. His earlier houses were "generated" from a transformation of forms related to the tenuous relationship of language to an underlying structure.

Eisenman's latter works show a sympathy with the "anti-humanist" ideas of deconstructionism.

References
Dennis Sharp. The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Architects and Architecture. New York: Quatro Publishing, 1991. ISBN 0-8230-2539-X. NA40.I45. p49.

"Aronoff Addition - A Field Guide to Meta-Narratives", by Brenda Case Scheer, AIA, ArchitectureWeek No. 32, 2001.0103, pD1.1.

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