Lars Müller Publishers
2006
In 1963 at the University of
Cambridge, Peter Eisenman -- world famous for his Holocaust Memorial in Berlin
(2005) and respected and feared by his colleagues for his intellectual acuity
and quick-wittedness -- wrote a dissertation on the formal basis of modern
architecture. In it, the architect confronts historicism with theory and the
analysis of form, whose distinguishing features he regards as the foundation of
architectural composition. Eisenman illustrates his observations with numerous,
extremely precise hand drawings. This striking document, with its idiosyncratic
photographs, fully deserves to be published here, for the first time, in a
faithful reproduction of the original. In an afterword, Peter Eisenman discusses
this remarkable starting point of his practical and theoretical work.
373 p., 31,3 x 30 cm
EAN 9783037780718
