Architectural Possibilities in the Work of Eisenman

Michael Jasper (University of Canberra, Australia)

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Routledge
27 May 2024

Architecture; Individual architects & architectural firms; Architectural structure & design; Architecture: professional practice; History of architecture

Series: Routledge Research in Architecture

This book examines the central decades of Peter Eisenman’s work through a formal and thematic analysis of key architectural projects and writings, revealing underlying characteristics and arguing for their productive continuity and transformative role.

The book explores Eisenman’s approach to architectural form generation and thinking. It does this through a thematic and formal analysis of projects and writings from the mid-1970s to the mid-1990s. Following an introductory chapter addressing the theme of potentialities, the book is organised in two parts. The first part focuses on key period writings of Eisenman, framing the close reading around a practice of resistance, the architect’s approach to history as analysis, and the transformative conceptualisation of time. In the second part, the book undertakes an analysis of select projects from the 1980s and 1990s. Three formal preoccupations and conceptual orientations – ground manipulations, figuration, and spatial events – organise this part of the book. Previously unpublished material from the Peter Eisenman fonds, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal, provides primary source material. A concluding chapter addresses Eisenman’s teaching, its relation to his larger project, and possible legacies for educators, practitioners, scholars, and theorists.

By: Michael Jasper (University of Canberra Australia)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781032379555
ISBN 10: 1032379553
Series: Routledge Research in Architecture
Pages: 156
Publication Date: 27 May 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Michael Jasper is Professor of Architecture in the Faculty of Arts and Design at the University of Canberra. A former Visiting Scholar at Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation, and former Visiting Scholar at the American Academy in Rome, he is the author of Architectural Aesthetic Speculations, and Deleuze on Art: The Problem of Aesthetic Constructions.