Architectural Possibilities in the Work of Eisenman

1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-37955-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 168 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 233 mm, Gewicht: 320 g

Reihe: Routledge Research in Architecture

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 Previously unpublished material from the Peter Eisenman fonds, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal, provides primary source material.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.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jasper, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Geschichte der Architektur, Baugeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Architektur: Berufspraxis
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Gestaltung, Darstellung, Bautechnik
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Architektur: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures and Tables. Acknowledgements. Endless Possibilities. Part I. 1.Practicing Resistance. 2.History. 3.Time When. Part II. 4.Ground. 5.Figures. 6.Event. Teaching Displacement. Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Michael Jasper is Professor of Architecture in the Faculty of Arts and Design at the University of Canberra. A former Visiting Scholar at Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation, and former Visiting Scholar at the American Academy in Rome, he is the author of Architectural Aesthetic Speculations, and Deleuze on Art: The Problem of Aesthetic Constructions.