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PETER EISENMAN

KSHITIZ AGARWAL

B.Arch IV

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ABOUT

Peter Eisenman was born in Newark, NewJersey.

He studied at Cornell and Columbia

Universities . Eisenman first rose to prominence as a

member of the New York Five.

In 2001, Eisenman won the National DesignAward for Architecture from the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum.

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STYLE

Eisenman has always sought somewhatobscure parallels between his architecturalworks and philosophical or literary theory.

His earlier houses were "generated" from atransformation of forms related to thetenuous relationship of language to anunderlying structure.

Eisenman's latter works show a sympathy withthe ideas of deconstructionism.

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He tries to do is to unlink the function that

architecture may represent from the

appearance - form - of that same architectural

object.

Concepts:

Artificial

excavation

Tracing

Layering

Deformation

Techniques:

Shear

Interference

Intersection

Distortion

Scaling

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Artificial excavation

Find traces of history.

Interpret form and meaning. Derive new forms and meaning by

layering and deforming.

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Shear

Skew objects Interference

Study interactions

Intersection

Emergent shapes

Distortion

Transform shapes

Scaling

Rotation

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Historical reading of the site

Superposition

Deformation strategy

Diagrammatic image

Elaboration

Design

Method

Diagrammatic image

Additional elements

Outside architecture

Related to project

Informing and

deforming

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Diagrammatic image

Add to superposition

Deform composition

Diagrammatic model

Physical scale model

Computer model

Model

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Deconstructionism

Characterized by ideas of fragmentation.

Characterized by a stimulating unpredictability

and a controlled chaos.

Coop Himmelblau

(Wolf Prix), Vienna

IBA Block 2,

Berlin

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Works

House VI(Frank residence), Cornwall, Connecticut.Design:1972.

Wexner Centre for the Arts, Ohio State University,Ohio,1989

Nunotani Building, Edogawa Tokyo Japan, 1991 Greater Columbus Convention Centre, Ohio,1993

Aronoff Centre for Design and Art, University for Cincinnati,Cincinnati, Ohio, 1996

City of Culture of Galcia, Santiago de Compostela, Galcia,

Spain, 1999 Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, Berlin, 2005

University of Phoenix Stadium, Glendale , Arizona, 2006

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House VI

Located in Cornawall,Connecticut.

Eisenman created a form from theintersection of four planes, subsequently

manipulating the structures again and again,until coherent spaces began to emerge.

The envelope and structure of the building are

justa manifestation of the changed elementsof the original four slabs, with some limitedmodifications.

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The purely conceptual design meant that the

architecture is strictly plastic, bearing no

relationship to construction techniques or

purely ornamental form.

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The use of the red stairs in House VI is

somewhat odd.

It is an upside down stairs, marked red, whichfunctions only as to divide the building and

provide the house with symmetry.

column/beam

intersection at red

staircase

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Wexner Center for the Arts

Location : Ohio State University,Ohio

Building Type :University arts center.

Construction System :steel, concrete, glass. Included in the Wexner Center space are a

film and video theater, a performance space, a

film and video post production studio, a

bookstore, caf, and 12,000 square feet (1,100

m) of galleries.

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The design includes a large, white metal grid

meant to suggest scaffolding, to give the

building a sense of incompleteness.

The extension of the Columbus street grid

generates a new pedestrian path into the

campus, a ramped east-west axis.

a major part of the project is not a building

itself, but a 'non-building'.

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Scaffolding traditionally is the most

impermanent part of a building.

Thus, the primary symbolization of a visual

arts center, which is traditionally that of a

shelter of art, is not figured in this case.

For although this building shelters, it does not

symbolize that function.

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Conclusion

The architecture of Eisenman had many

different angles and difficulties when

analyzing it and trying to describe it in general

terms.

forms are no longer a means toward an

end, but an end in themselves

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Thank You