Eisenman inside out : selected writings, 1963-1988 / Peter Eisenman.

Main entry:

Eisenman, Peter, 1932-

Title & Author:

Eisenman inside out : selected writings, 1963-1988 / Peter Eisenman.

Publication:

Description:

xv, 247 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Series:

Theoretical perspectives in architectural history and criticism

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-245) and index.
Toward an understanding of form in architecture -- Notes on conceptual architecture: toward a definition -- Cardboard architecture: house I and house II -- From Golden Lane to Robin Hood Gardens: or if you follow the yellow brick road, it may not lead to Golders Green -- Real and English: the destruction of the box. I. -- Post-functionalism -- Behind the mirror: on the writings of Philip Johnson -- The graves of modernism -- Aspects of modernism: Maison Dom-ino and the self-referential sign -- In my father's house are many mansions -- The houses of memory: the texts of analogy -- The representations of doubt: at the sign of the sign -- The end of the classical: the end of the beginning, the end of the end -- The futility of objects: decomposition and the processes of differentiation -- miMISes READING: does not mean A THING -- Architecture and the problem of the rhetorical figure -- Misreading Peter Eisenman -- Architecture as a second language: the texts of between -- Blue line text.

Summary:

Providing new perspectives on leading architects, such as Palladio, Le Corbusier and Hedjuk, and on Eisenman's own methodologies, these writings present an insider's appraisal of the polemics that have defined architecture over the past half century.

Resources:
Table of contents
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ISBN:

0300090080 (paperback ; alk. paper)
9780300090086 (paperback ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Eisenman, Peter, 1932- Aesthetics.
Eisenman, Peter, 1932- Esthétique.
Eisenman, Peter, 1932-
Eisenman, Peter 1963 / 1988.
Eisenman, Peter scritti.
Eisenman, Peter.
Architecture.
Architecture, Modern.
architecture (discipline)
Aesthetics
Architectuurtheorieën.
Arquitetura (teoria)
Architecte.
Esthétique.

Form/genre:

Writings.

Added entries:

Theoretical perspectives in architectural history and criticism.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 231427
Call No.: NA44.E36.A35 2004
Status: External loan

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