Code X : the city of culture of Galicia / Eisenman Architects ; edited by Cynthia Davidson ; with essays by Peter Eisenman, Kurt W. Forster, Luis Fernández-Galiano ; and an introduction by Manuel Fraga Iribarne.

Title & Author:

Publication:

New York, N.Y. : Monacelli Press, 2005.

Description:

1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

Notes:
The City of Culture of Galicia / Manuel Fraga Iribarne -- Code X in three movements / Luis Fernández-Galiano -- La forza del destino: the new from the shell of the old / Kurt W. Forster -- Coded rewritings: the processes of Santiago / Peter Eisenman -- City of Culture -- Periodicals archive -- Library of Galicia -- Galician Music Theater -- Central Services -- Museum of Galician History -- New Technologies Center -- Excavation.

Summary:

Peter Eisenman's competition-winning project for the City of Culture of Galicia in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, is a formidable battery of museums, libraries, and auditoriums, a cultural acropolis atop a spectacular hillside site in northeastern Spain. By excavating the hilltop and arranging six buildings as a kind of artificial topography, Eisenman creates a new warped landscape that seems to merge building and ground, that occupies the hilltop without seeming to have been built upon it. In CODEX, the New York-based Eisenman, known for a career of formal investigations, reveals in essays and illustrations his theory of coding as a device for producing form. Through more than three hundred line drawings and perspectives, the development of the code--and the buildings and landscape it informs--becomes apparent, culminating in a giant earthwork as excavation of the site begins.

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Table of contents

ISBN:

1580931383 (paperback)
9781580931380 (paperback)

Subject:

Eisenman, Peter, 1932- Criticism and interpretation.
Eisenman, Peter, 1932- Critique et interprétation.
Eisenman, Peter, 1932-
Cidade da Cultura de Galicia (Santiago de Compostela, Spain)
Cidade da Cultura de Galicia (Saint-Jacques-de-Compostelle, Espagne)
Fundación Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
Santiago de Compostela Città della Cultura di Galizia.
Art centers Spain Santiago de Compostela Designs and plans.
Centres culturels Espagne Saint-Jacques-de-Compostelle Dessins et plans.
Centres d'art Espagne Saint-Jacques-de-Compostelle Dessins et plans.
Art centers
Buildings
Museumsbau
Santiago de Compostela (Spain) Buildings, structures, etc.
Saint-Jacques-de-Compostelle (Espagne) Constructions.
Spain Santiago de Compostela
Art centers Spain Santiago de Compostela.
Cultural centers Spain Santiago de Compostela.
Architecture (object genre) Spain Santiago de Compostela.
American architects.
American architectural firms.

Form/genre:

architectural drawings (visual works)
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Architectural drawings
Dessins d'architecture.

Added entries:

Davidson, Cynthia C.
Eisenman, Peter, 1932-
Forster, Kurt Walter.
Fernández-Galiano, Luis.
Eisenman Architects.

CodeX

Holdings:

Location: Library main 237529
Call No.: NA44.E36.25 C5 2005
Status: Available

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