Main entry:

Eisenman, Peter, 1932- author

Title & Author:

Diagram diaries / Peter Eisenman.

Publication:

New York, NY : Universe Publishing, 1999.

Description:

240 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 24-25).
Dummy text, or the diagrammatic basis of contemporary architecture / R.E. Somol -- Diagram: an original scene of writing / Peter Eisenman -- Diagrams of anteriority / Peter Eisenman -- Diagrams of interiority / Peter Eisenman -- Interiority: grids -- Interiority: cubes -- Interiority: El forms -- Interiority: bars -- Index -- Diagrams of exteriority -- Exteriority: site -- Exteriority: texts -- Exteriority:mathematics -- Exteriority: science -- The diagram and the becoming unmotivated of the sign / Peter Eisenman -- Appendix: Projects.

Summary:

"Diagram Diaries is an unprecedented illustrated chronicle that showcases Eisenman's work to date - from his earliest house designs to the heralded Wexner Center in Columbus, Ohio, through current commissions such as the Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences in New York City. This volume is more than a straightforward survey of the architect's work, however; it is by its very nature an engaging exploration of the process of design. Essays and detailed descriptions are built along a central axis tracing Eisenman's career.
Project profiles are organized according to their "generating motif": the interiority of architecture, or projects generated by the internal forces of shapes and forms; and the exteriority of architecture, projects governed by external forces such as site and scientific process. Through Eisenman's own essays and through extensive illustration, readers come to understand Eisenman's diagram-based approach to design whereby sites and structures can be manipulated in diagram form."--Jacket.

Resources:
Publisher description

ISBN:

0789302640 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780789302649 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9789302640 (alk. paper)
0500237689
9780500237687

Subject:

Eisenman, Peter, 1932-
Eisenman, Peter, 1932- Et le design architectural.
Eisenman, Peter 1932-
Eisenman, Peter.
Architectural design.
Design architectural.
Bildband
Architectuurtheorieën.
Architects United States 20th century.
American architects.
American architectural firms.
Architecture United States 1960-2000.
Houses United States 1960-2000.
Architecture Europe 1980-2000.
Houses Europe 1980-2000.
Architectural theory.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 204552
Call No.: NA44.E36.A35 1999
Status: Available