The Formal Basis of Modern Architecture: Dissertation 1963, Facsimile
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| Rating | : | 4.21 (635 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 3037780711 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 528 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-11-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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About the Authors: Peter Eisenman is founder of both Eisenman Architects and the Institute of Architecture and Urban Studies in New York. BRichard Meier is founder of Richard Meier and Partners in New York.. Charles Gwathmey is founder of Gwathmey, Siegel, and Associates, Architects in New York. He is the 198
Diagrams CAN be useful, descriptions become repetitive Careful. This book's analysis of architecture is strictly Formal (as mentioned in the title) and should not be read as a guide to design. Although a lot of the points Eisenmann makes are interesting the book does become repetitive when it comes to the analyses of the various works. The diagrams he includes with his analyses are great, and very relevant to what he is talking about.The feel of the book is
In an afterword, Peter Eisenman discusses this remarkable starting point of his practical and theoretical work.. In it, the architect confronts historicism with theory and the analysis of form, whose distinguishing features he regards as the foundation of architectural composition. 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 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. Eisenman illustrates his observations with numerous, extremely precise hand drawings
BRichard Meier is founder of Richard Meier and Partners in New York.. John Hejduk is Dean at the School of Architecture at Cooper Union. He is the recipient of numerous AIA National Honor awards as well as several Progressive Architecture Design awards. His recent projects include thedesign for The Science, Industry, and Business Library branch of the New York Public Library. Charles Gwathmey is founder of Gwathmey, Siegel, and Associates, Architects in New York. Brunner Memorial Prize in Architecture from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. Michael Graves is founder of theMichael Graves architechtural firm in Princeton, New Je