Hatje Cantz Publishers
March 2005
Fragments of the many practices of the American architect Peter Eisenman are
the subject of Barefoot on White-Hot Walls, published in conjunction with the
exhibition at the MAK, Vienna. This volume gathers critical texts by Peter
Eisenman and other authors, including Mark Wigley and Emmanuel Petit, ample
project illustrations from Eisenman's entire career, including the Memorial to
the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin, and the City of Culture of Galicia in
Santiago de Compostela, as well as documentation of the exhibition installation
itself.
Both the catalogue and the exhibition are collections of autonomous fragments
of different moments in Eisenman's varied practice as an architect, including
design projects since the 1970s, building analyses, lecture excerpts,
biographical information, and critical writings. It is as much a retrospective
of nearly forty years of Eisenman's work as it is a document that considers the
contemporary relevance of some of his key architectural concepts.
"I'm interested in fundamental research. But I am not a fundamentalist. Nor
am I a Marxist. Nor am I a modernist. If the world were all deconstructionist
buildings, I'd go nuts. I am interested in what the discipline has to show us
about architecture as it relates to the culture".
-- Peter Eisenman
177 p., 24 x 32 cm
EAN 9783775715614
