Peter Eisenman
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| Peter Eisenman | |
| Title | Architect |
| Born | 1932; Newark, New Jersey, USA |
| Education | Cornell University; Columbia University. |
| Firms | Eisenman Architects, New York, New York, USA |
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| At Great Buildings | http://www.greatbuildings.com/architects/Peter_Eisenman.html |
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[edit] Works
- Frank House-Eisenman, at Washington, Connecticut, 1975.
- Wexner Center, at Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, 1983 to 1989.
- DAAP Aronoff Addition, at University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1999.
- Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, Berlin, Germany, 1998 to 2005.
- City of Culture of Galicia, at Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 1999-2012.
[edit] Discussion
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.
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[edit] Reference
- Dennis Sharp. The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Architects and Architecture. New York: Quatro Publishing, 1991. ISBN 0-8230-2539-X. NA40.I45. p49.
[edit] External Links
- [Aronoff Addition - A Field Guide to Meta-Narratives], by Brenda Case Scheer, AIA, ArchitectureWeek No. 32, 2001.0103, pD1.1.
