Five Easy Pieces

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• Fonds: Peter Eisenman fonds, 1925-2008, predominant 1951-2008
•    Series: Exhibitions, [1966]-2007
•      Project: Five Easy Pieces, [1976]

People

• Peter D. Eisenman, Architect (creator)
• Peter D. Eisenman, Architect (architectural firm)
• Peter Eisenman (archive creator)

Title

Five Easy Pieces

Dates of creation

[1976]

Level of archival description

File 3

Extent and Medium

• Approximately 19 drawings
• 4 photographic materials

Scope and Content

File documents an unexecuted project for Five Easy Pieces: Dialectical Fragments Toward the Decomposition and Reintegration of Suburbia, Peter Eisenman's submission to the "Suburban Alternatives, 11 American Projects" section of the Biennale di Venezia held in 1976 in Venice, Italy. Material in this file was probably produced in 1976.

File contains design development drawings, presentation drawings, publication drawings, reference drawings, and photographic material.

Reference Number

AP143.S6.D3

Language of material

Documents are in English.

Related units of description

• File 20 in Series 4 (AP143.S4.D20) documents the project records for House X.

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  • Reference Number: DR1994:0225:002
  • Title: Views of axonometrics, plans, and perspectives of various projects, including Le Corbusier's Maison Domino
  • Form: photographs
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Peter Eisenman (archive creator)

  Quantity / Object type:

  4 negative(s)

  Extent and Medium:

  • 4 negatives

  Technique and media:

  Composite negatives

  Dimensions:

  negative (smallest; irreg.): 103 x 100 cm negative (largest; irreg.): 103 x 105 cm

  Credit line:

  Peter Eisenman fonds
  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal