Eisenman Architects: Selected and Current Works (Master Architect Series)

Peter Eisenman

ISBN 10: 1875498214 / ISBN 13: 9781875498215

Verlag: The Images Publishing Group, 1995

Beschreibung

Hardcover in dust jacket. Clean text - NO writing, NO highlighting to text. Very good. Dust jacket has some light wear. VG/VG- Oversized. Clean text -- NO writing, NO highlighting to text.ÂPLEASE NOTE: Domestic US media (standard) US orders ONLY. NO international orders.

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Eisenman Architects: Selected and Current Works (Master Architect Series)
• Verlag: The Images Publishing Group
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1995
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1875498214
• ISBN-13: 9781875498215
• Einband: paperback
• Zustand: Very Good
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Schutzumschlag

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Inhaltsangabe

It is difficult to say which is the more impressive career accomplishment: to have generated an endlessly renewed trail of agitative hypotheses over a 30-year period, or to have eschewed nearly all the comforts of consolidation - and the inevitable complacencies - afforded by conventional, repeatable "successes" such as the production of "great" buildings or the development of a signature style. In both these respects, Peter Eisenman differs not only from other architechts of his own generation, but from nearly all other architects working today.
When Eisenman's work began in the early sixties, it was, and remains to this day, a primarily tactical enterprise: its force from the outset was drafted from that of the enemy - classicism - but was also turned aggressively against it... Eisenman's task has been to develop a practice that, to borrow an expression from Foucault and Nietzsche, would come from outside... There is not now, nor has there ever been, a fixable Eisenmanian alternative architecture; tactical space after all is made up of a series of seized "occasions," so that the momentary triumphs that punctuate its unfolding campaign are never - indeed cannot be - stored. Eisenman's practice is assembled and articulated in movement and in the spirit of movement; it operates through invasion, disruption, and the release of temporarily trapped forces into free motion and recombination.

Reseña del editor

THE MASTER ARCHITECT SERIES is a series of monographs on some of the greatest architects and architectural firms of our time. Each monograph will contain 256 pages displaying several hundred color photographs, drawings, sketches and renderings. Although primarily a pictorial essay, the books will contain selected projects described in concise detail, along with a critique or overview of the firm, a resume of the partners, and a comprehensive bibliography.