Peter Eisenman - Personal Work

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• Fonds: Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies fonds, 1965-1984
•    Series: Records of Peter Eisenman, 1966-1984
•      Sub-series: Peter Eisenman - Personal Work, 1976-1984

People

• Peter Eisenman (creator)
• Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies (archive creator)

Title

Peter Eisenman - Personal Work

Dates of creation

1976-1984

Level of archival description

Subseries

Extent and Medium

• 0.1 l.m. of textual records

Scope and Content

Subseries documents the activities of Peter Eisenman as architect and critic. The material in the subseries was produced between 1976 and 1984

Sub-series contains predominantly essays, interviews, diary planners, notes, curriculum vitaes and documents releting to Eisenman's book projects.

Reference Number

AP057.S4.SS3

Arrangement

Materials in this subseries were arranged to reflect their original order.

Related units of description

• Textual documents in file ARCH153754 (sub-series AP057.S3.SS2) and files ARCH153877 and ARCH153878 (sub-series AP057.S4.SS4) also contain information relevant to sub-series AP057.S4.SS3.

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  • Reference Number: ARCH153859
  • Title: PDE Biography/Bibliography
  • Dates of creation: circa 1976-1984
  • Form: textual records
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies (archive creator)

  Description:

  3 copies of Peter Eisenman's curriculum vitae

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 File

  Extent and Medium:

  • 0.01 l.m. of textual records

  Conditions governing access:

  • File contains nominative information; cannot be accessed without approval of the archivist.

  Credit line:

  Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies fonds
  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
  Don de Eisenman Architects/
  Gift of Eisenman Architects
  

  Folder Number:

  D3-1

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  • Reference Number: ARCH153860
  • Title: P. Eisenman's C.V.'s
  • Dates of creation: circa 1976-1984
  • Form: textual records
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies (archive creator)

  Description:

  Multiple copies of Peter Eisenman's curriculum vitaes, including bibliographies.

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 File

  Extent and Medium:

  • 0.01 l.m. of textual records

  Conditions governing access:

  • File contains nominative information; cannot be accessed without approval from the archivist.

  Credit line:

  Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies fonds
  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
  Don de Eisenman Architects/
  Gift of Eisenman Architects
  

  Folder Number:

  D3-2

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  • Reference Number: ARCH153861
  • Title: DDR File : STERN
  • Dates of creation: circa 1976-1984
  • Form: textual records
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies (archive creator)

  Description:

  Documentation file about Robert Stern (no date)
  Handwritten notes
  Photocopy of PDE's “Graves of Modernism”.

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 File

  Extent and Medium:

  • 0.01 l.m. of textual records

  Credit line:

  Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies fonds
  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
  Don de Eisenman Architects/
  Gift of Eisenman Architects
  

  Folder Number:

  D3-3

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  • Reference Number: ARCH153862
  • Title: DDR File Untitled
  • Dates of creation: 1980
  • Form: textual records
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies (archive creator)

  Description:

  Transcript of interview with P. Eisenman, by H. Klotz and Tillman Buddenseig, 1980.
  The Object and its Center by Gavin Macrae-Gibson.

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 File

  Extent and Medium:

  • 0.01 l.m. of textual records

  Credit line:

  Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies fonds
  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
  Don de Eisenman Architects/
  Gift of Eisenman Architects
  

  Folder Number:

  D3-4

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  • Reference Number: ARCH153863
  • Title: DDR File Untitled
  • Dates of creation: 1981
  • Form: textual records
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies (archive creator)

  Description:

  Paolo Desideri, Interview with P. Eisenman, Transcripts, 1981.

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 File

  Extent and Medium:

  • 0.01 l.m. of textual records

  Credit line:

  Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies fonds
  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
  Don de Eisenman Architects/
  Gift of Eisenman Architects
  

  Folder Number:

  D3-5

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  • Reference Number: ARCH153864
  • Title: Tipo Edilizio e Normativa dell'Architettura
  • Dates of creation: 23 April 1980
  • Form: textual records
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies (archive creator)

  Description:

  Thesis relating to German architecture by Paolo Desideri; in Italian

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 File

  Extent and Medium:

  • 0.01 l.m. of textual records

  Credit line:

  Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies fonds
  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
  Don de Eisenman Architects/
  Gift of Eisenman Architects
  

  Folder Number:

  D3-6

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  • Reference Number: ARCH153865
  • Title: Miscellaneous papers of Peter Eisenman, 1982-1984
  • Dates of creation: 1982-1984
  • Form: textual records
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies (archive creator)

  Description:

  Diary planners (10 items, 1982)
  Documents from A.I.A.
  Text by Marina Wenzman about Emilio Ambasz' alternative architecture 1982; 1984

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 File

  Extent and Medium:

  • 0.01 l.m. of textual records

  Credit line:

  Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies fonds
  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
  Don de Eisenman Architects/
  Gift of Eisenman Architects
  

  Folder Number:

  D3-7

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  • Reference Number: ARCH153866
  • Title: Symposium: “Towards a Theory of the Humanities”; University of South California; Nov. 17-19, 1977.
  • Dates of creation: 1977
  • Form: textual records
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies (archive creator)

  Description:

  Peter Eisenman : “The Teaching of Architecture as a Humanist Discipline”;
  David Howard Bell: “Unity & Aesthetics of Incompletion”;
  Nancy S. Struever: "Humanities and Humanists"
  ? : “The Public Function of Humanities
  Marshall Cohen : “Remarks on Postmodernism: An Outline”
  Adolf Grümbaum : “The Role of Psychological Explanations of the Rejections or Acceptance of Scientific Theories”.
  Bersani : ?
  Louch : “Professions, Disciplines & The Humanities”
  Philip Fisher : “The Recovery of the Body”
  D.L. Rosenbau : “Causes and Faults”

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 File

  Extent and Medium:

  • 0.01 l.m. of textual records

  Credit line:

  Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies fonds
  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
  Don de Eisenman Architects/
  Gift of Eisenman Architects
  

  Folder Number:

  D3-8

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  • Reference Number: ARCH153867
  • Title: DDR File : House X
  • Dates of creation: 1980
  • Form: textual records
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies (archive creator)

  Description:

  Documents relating to the printing and editing of House X publication.

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 File

  Extent and Medium:

  • 0.01 l.m. of textual records

  Credit line:

  Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies fonds
  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
  Don de Eisenman Architects/
  Gift of Eisenman Architects
  

  Folder Number:

  D3-9

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  • Reference Number: ARCH153868
  • Title: Preliminary model of PDE's book on Terragni
  • Dates of creation: circa 1976-1984
  • Form: textual records
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies (archive creator)

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 File

  Extent and Medium:

  • 0.01 l.m. of textual records

  Credit line:

  Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies fonds
  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
  Don de Eisenman Architects/
  Gift of Eisenman Architects
  

  Related units of description:

  • More material relating to Peter Eisenman's Terragni publication can be found in file ARCH153778 (file AP057.S3.SS2).

  Folder Number:

  D3-10