Eisenman Architects : selected and current works / [edited by Stephen Dobney].

Main entry:

Eisenman, Peter, 1932-

Title & Author:

Eisenman Architects : selected and current works / [edited by Stephen Dobney].

Publication:

Mulgrave, Vic. : Images Pub. Group, 1995.

Description:

256 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm.

Series:

The master architect series, 1320-7253 ; 9

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-254) and index.

Summary:

"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."--BOOK JACKET.

ISBN:

1875498214
9781875498215

Subject:

Eisenman, Peter, 1932- Catalogs.
Eisenman, Peter, 1932-
Eisenman Architects Catalogs.
Eisenman Architects
Architecture, Modern 20th century Catalogs.
Architecture 20e siècle Catalogues.
Architecture, Modern
Architektur
Bildband
Eisenman, Peter 1932- Catalogs

Form/genre:

catalogs (documents)
Catalogs
Catalogues.

Added entries:

Dobney, Stephen.
Eisenman Architects.
Master architect series ; 9.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 154329
Call No.: NA44.E36.23 E3 1995
Status: Available

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