Houses of Cards

Peter Eisenman

ISBN 10: 0195051300 / ISBN 13: 9780195051308

Verlag: Oxford Unversity Press, 1987

Beschreibung

Square 4to pp. 224, "Peter Eisenman is known internationally for his innovative and provocative architecture and writings. One of the "New York Five," he has been a leading figure in the architectural community for many years, as teacher, as founder and former director of the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies, and as builder. This long-awaited book? Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 251737

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Houses of Cards

Verlag: Oxford Unversity Press

Erscheinungsdatum: 1987

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Very Good

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good

Art des Buches: book

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Inhaltsangabe:

Book by Eisenman Peter

Reseña del editor:

Peter Eisenman began by writing a "text" every time he built a house which decribed the process of conceptualising the house. In this volume, aspects of Eisenman's early work are discussed in relation to his subsequent work. The book also documents a change in Eisenman's theory. From a position represented by his first houses, in which he sought to rid the structure of any prior association to meaning (such as in the "country house") by confounding a person's expectation at every stage and in every detail, Eisenman moves to an architecture that seeks to incorporate more contextual realities. An essay by Rosalind Krauss chronicles the shift in Eisenman's work from essence and centering in the early houses to the idea of fiction and decentering in his later work. Manfredo Tafuri presents the work in the light of psychological discourse and motivation.