Main entry:

Galofaro, Luca.

Title & Author:

Digital Eisenman : an office of the electronic era / Luca Galofaro ; [translation into English, Lucinda Byatt].

Publication:

Basel ; Boston : Birkhäuser-Publishers for Architecture, ©1999.

Description:

93 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 19 cm.

Series:

The IT revolution in architecture

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 90-93).
A starting point -- Critical architecture: Ongoing criticism ; Eisenman as Piranesi -- How Eisenman works: 41 West, 25th Street, New York City ; The method through the project ; Plastic models ; Diagrammatic models ; Computerized models ; Genesis of a project ; The organization of the working group for the offices of BFL Software Limited, Bangalore, India ; The meetings ; The final solution -- Instruments for electronic architecture: Diagrams ; Breakdown of the building ; Axes and vectors ; Virtual house -- The new system of vision: Notes on Staten Island / by Marco Galofaro ; Visions unfolding: architecture in the age of electronic media / by Peter Eisenman.

Summary:

"Through extracts from interviews, careful analysis of certain projects (like the Virtual House) and original iconographic support, this book leads the reader, step by step, in discovering how an avantgarde architect works in theory and practice to create spaces typical of the new electronic era."--BOOK JACKET.

ISBN:

3764360941 (alk. paper)
9783764360948 (alk. paper)
0817660941 (alk. paper)
9780817660949 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Eisenman, Peter, 1932- Criticism and interpretation.
Eisenman, Peter, 1932- Critique et interprétation.
Eisenman, Peter, 1932-
Eisenman, Peter 1932-
Eisenman, Peter.
Architecture Data processing.
Computer architecture.
Ordinateurs Architecture.
Architecture Informatique.
Architektur
CAD

Form/genre:

Essays.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Added entries:

Eisenman, Peter, 1932-
IT revolution in architecture.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 211162
Call No.: NA44.E36.9 G3 1999a
Status: Available