Written into the void : selected writings, 1990-2004 / Peter Eisenman ; with an introduction by Jeffrey Kipnis.

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Eisenman, Peter, 1932-

Title & Author:

Written into the void : selected writings, 1990-2004 / Peter Eisenman ; with an introduction by Jeffrey Kipnis.

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Description:

xxix, 177 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 170-172) and index.
Introduction : Act two / Jeffery Kipnis -- Post/E1 cards: a reply to Jacques Derrida -- The author's affect: passion and the moment of architecture -- Unfolding events: Frankfurt Rebstockpark and the possibility of a new urbanism -- The affects of singularity -- Folding in time: the singularity of Rebstock -- Vision's unfolding: architecture in the age of electronic media -- Presentness and the being-only-once of architecture -- Processes of the interstitial: notes on Zaera-Polo's idea of the machinic -- Separate tricks -- Written into the void -- Diagram: an original scene of writing -- Autonomy and the will to the critical -- Mies and the figuring of absence -- Blurred zones -- L'ora che è stata -- A matrix to the jungle -- Terragni and the idea of a critical text -- Digital scrambler: From index to codex -- The wicked critic -- Appendix : Letter from Jacques Derrida to Peter Eisenman.

Summary:

This volume gathers a selection of architect Peter Eisenman's later writings. In these texts, he undertakes a variety of tasks, including theoretical analyses, close readings of his own works, and innovative assessments of the designs and writings of other architects and critics.

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ISBN:

9780300111118 (paperback)
0300111118 (paperback)

Subject:

Eisenman, Peter, 1932- Aesthetics.
Eisenman, Peter, 1932- Esthétique.
Eisenman, Peter, 1932-
Eisenman, Peter 1932-
Eisenman, Peter.
Architecture.
architecture (discipline)
Aesthetics
Architekturtheorie
Ästhetik
Architektur

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Aufsatzsammlung.

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Location: Library main 271546
Call No.: BIB 204710
Status: Available

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