Eisenman, Peter, 1932-

Peter Eisenman fonds, 1925-2008.

ca. 46,874 items, 85.57 l.m. textual records.

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The Peter Eisenman fonds documents Eisenman's professional activities as an architect, teacher, and author from the 1950s to 2008. More than 200 projects are represented through conceptual and design development drawings, models, photographs, textual records, and computer-aided drawings. Also well represented in the fonds are materials related to Eisenman's exhibitions, publications, and writings. Documents are predominantly from 1951 to 2008. Fonds contains a large number of architectural drawings, including conceptual, design development, presentation, publication and working drawings, as well as textual records, photographic materials, several models and a few artefacts relating mostly to architectural projects. Textual records also pertain to various activities by the partners and their successive firms and include correspondence, minutes, reports, financial records, specifications, notes, building programmes, clippings and contracts. Contains ca. 39,294 drawings, ca. 85.57 l.m. of textual records, ca. 4,364 reprographies, ca. 1,250 models, 443 CD-Rs, 424 photographies, 346 negatives, 177 rolls, 132 panels, 90 photomechanical prints, 65 slides, 59 boxes of models, 59 videocassettes, 42 sets, 34 artefacts, 30 DVDs, 21 maps, 17 collages, 14 photomontages, 13 posters, 7 sketchbooks, 6 audio reels, 6 boxes, 6 manuscripts, 0.08 l.m. of photographic materials, 3 banners, 3 ephemera, 2 boxes of drawings, 2 film reels, 1 audiocassette, 1 box of panels, 1 box of rolls, 1 film negative, 1 floppy disk and digital files.

Peter Eisenman ; born 1932 in Newark, New Jersey ; American architect, theorist, and educator ; earned a B. Arch. at Cornell University in 1955, M. Arch. Columbia University in 1959, and a doctorate in 1963 at Cambridge University ; joined the architecture faculty of Princeton University in 1963 and left in 1967 ; founded in 1967 the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies in New York, IAUS ; in 1973, with IAUS colleagues, he began the journal Oppositions ; founded The Anyone Corporation in the 1990s ; taught at Cambridge, Princeton, Harvard, Yale, and Ohio State universities, and at Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York City. He has been a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects since 1981, and in 1994 was awarded the Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize in Architecture by the American Academy of Arts and Letters ; received in 2004 the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement in Architecture at the Ninth Venice Biennale for architecture.

Eisenman, Peter, 1932-
Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Architecture 20e siècle.
Architecture, Modern.
American architects.

Fonds (collections)
Architectural drawings (visual works)
Black-and-white photographs.
Photographs.
Documents.
Sketchbooks.
Architectural models.
CD-Rs.
Negatives (photographs)
Photomechanical prints.
Slides (photographs)
Videocassettes.
DVDs.
Maps.
Posters.
Boxes (containers)
Floppy disks.

Location: Library archives collection 278711
Call No.: AP143
Status: Available