A prominent practitioner, an influential theorist, and an esteemed educator, the architect Peter Eisenman today stands at the centre of architectural discourse and debate, as he has for some forty years. This book, a companion volume to "Eisenman Inside Out: Selected Writings, 1963-1988", gathers a [...]
Peter Eisenman s architecture carries many layers and meanings; one question leads to the next and one conversation provokes another. Vladimir Belogolovsky s new book highlights three separate conversations he had with the architect at his New York City studio in October 2003, June 2009, and Februar[...]
Peter Eisenman (Yale School of Architecture, New Haven, Eisenman Architects, New York, USA) discusses with architects and philosophers: Jorg H. Gleiter (Germany), Kim Forster (Switzerland), Preston Scott Cohen (USA), Emmanuel Petit (USA), Mario Carpo (USA), Sarah M. Whiting (USA), Manuel Orazi (Ital[...]
Justly renowned as one of the finest printmakers of the eighteenth century, Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778) is best known for his etched views of Rome and its antiquities, as well as for his highly influential suite of drawings entitled "Carceri," or "Imaginary Prisons." Trained as an archite[...]
In 1999 the Xunta de Galicia called an International Architecture Competition to build the City of Culture of Galicia on Mount Gaias in Santiago de Compostela. Twelve proposals by renowned national and international architects' studios were initially submitted to this competition for ideas. The arch[...]