Perhaps more than any other architect practicing today, Peter Eisenman has made a career out of devising a dialectic of oppositions in architecture. With references to societal alienation and existing architectural forms, his work derives much from Friedrich Nietzsche, Noam Chomsky, and Jacques Derrida. He led the loosely knit group of architects ...
In the late 1980s, the New York-based office Eisenman Architects, led by architect and educator Peter Eisenman, shifted from an investigation of "artificial excavations" as an architectural tool to a conscious pursuit of a concept he called "blurring." Blurring is not a visual effect but rather deals with affect, that is, a strategy for exploring ...
Peter Eisenman's competition-winning project for the City of Culture of Galicia in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, is a formidable battery of museums, libraries, and auditoriums, a cultural acropolis atop a spectacular hillside site in northeastern Spain. By excavating the hilltop and arranging six buildings as a kind of artificial topography, ...
This extensive chronology of US women's writing and social history catalogues authors of fiction and non-fiction across a wide range of genres - novels, poetry, cookbooks, songs - and describes the events from world-transforming to everyday occurences when these works were produced. This invaluable resource is a celebration of the many forms of ...
At a time when the fragmented ideas and styles in architecture make it seem as if "anything goes," "Anything" asks whether there are constraints to thought and action that change "anything" to "the thing." In 32 original essays, many of them illustrated, leading architects, theorists, historians and others discuss their works. The wide-ranging ...
In November 2002, the Yale School of Architecture hosted the symposium "Eisenman/Krier: Two Ideologies," a two-day analysis -- both celebratory and critical -- of architects Peter Eisenman and Leon Krier. Eisenman, with an office in New York, and Krier, based in southern France, represent two opposing views in architecture: the modern and the ...
At the turn of the millennium - the end of a calibrated period of time - it seems necessary to ask certain questions, foremost among them: Anymore?; Anymore history and theory?; Anymore architecture? Of particular concern are the last 200 years, a self-conscious period known as modernism. Can we assume that a simple calender change signals an end ...
ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIP A collection of short works by one of America's most revered, iconoclastic, and enduring voices?Mark Twain. EACH ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES: - A concise introduction that gives readers important background information - A chronology of the author's life and work - A timeline of ...
Celebrate the promise of spring with three new stories that take readers beyond the boundaries of time to capture the power of love. In "Beyond the Call" by Sandra Davidson, a modern-day woman is transported back to the Civil War to save a man from disaster. In Lisa Plumley's "Chances Are", an antique perfume bottle takes a woman back to 1890--and ...
This is the long-awaited, complete monograph of legendary and cult architect, Peter Eisenman that sums up and fully illustrates his lifetime's achievement, from his first work, "House I" (1960), to his most recent projects, currently under construction in the US, Spain and Germany. The book is centred on sixty-three of Eisenman's most significant ...
With the 2006 opening of its expansion designed by the Renzo Piano Building Workshop, The Morgan Library and Museum in New York began a new chapter in its history.This is an illustrated chronicle of the one-hundred-year transformation of a rarefied private library into an acclaimed public museum. The contributors assess Pierpont Morgan's vision ...
People over the age of 50 face constant, high-pressure sales pitches from insurance carriers, brokers, and agents. This book takes older consumers through the maze of insurance products and helps them determine--without sales hype--what's available and what's advisable.
This volume features the projects entered for the 1995 Aga Khan Award for Architecture. An introductory chapter discusses the award and explores spirituality in buildings and contemporary society. The book includes descriptions of the winning designs in Yemen, Tunisia, Pakistan, Senegal and India. Contributors include Charles Jencks, Peter ...
Architecture functions between tradition and innovation, between historical archetypes and that which as yet has no form. The historicity and concurrent openness to futurity are two of the subjects discussed in this book, which probes architecture's relationships with space and time. After a section called "Beginnings", in which ten young ...
"Anyplace" brings together a number of the world's leading architects, philosophers, artists, historians, critics and others in a volume that represents current thinking on the "place" of architecture in relationship to thought, politics, art, science and the developing technological realm of cyberspace. Essays by Sylviane Agacinski, Fredric ...
How in relation to process, infrastructure, money, information, and program, is architecture in fact done in the late-1990s? How do we operate beyond and sometimes even at odds with policies and official regulations, local interest, and global demands? How might architecture analyze or diagram these zones of operation in order to intervene in them ...
The Vitruvian Man, the Golden Section, and the Modular Man were once seen as idealized, iconic representations of the relationship of the human body to architecture. However, the widespread practice of psychoanalysis, the development of genetic engineering, and the raised consciousness of the female body have altered not only the traditional idea ...
The Aga Khan Award for Architecture was established in 1977 to encourage and bring to international attention the work of architects and designers building in Muslim nations. Previous winners of the award, which is made every three years, include such architects as Balkrishna Doshi, Ken Yeang, Jean Nouvel, Charles Correa and Hassan Fathy, whose ...
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