Main entry:

Eisenman, Peter, 1932-

Title & Author:

The formal basis of modern architecture / Peter Eisenman.

Publication:

Baden, Switzerland : L. Müller, 2006.

Description:

381 pages : illustrations ; 31 cm

Notes:
"Original submitted in August 1963."
"Facsimile reprint"--Colophon.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-371).
1. Form in relation to architecture -- 2. The properties of generic architectural form -- 3. Development of formal systems -- 4. Analyses of formal systems : Pavillon Suisse: Paris, France / Le Corbusier ; Cité de Réfuge: Paris, France / Le Corbusier ; Darwin D. Martin House: Buffalo, New York / Frank Lloyd Wright -- Avery Coonley House: Riverside, Illinois / Frank Lloyd Wright ; Civic Centre: Säynätsalo, Finland / Alvar Aalto ; Tallinn Museum, Tallinn, Estonia / Alvar Aalto ; Casa del Fascio, Como, Italy / Guiseppe Terragni ; Asilo Infantile: Como, Italy / Guiseppe Terrragni -- 5. Closed-ened and open-ended theory.

Summary:

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.

ISBN:

3037780711
9783037780718

Subject:

Architecture Philosophy.
Architectural design.
Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Architecture Philosophie.
Design architectural.
Architecture 20e siècle.
architectural theory.
Architecture, Modern
Architectuurtheorieën.
Vorm.
Bauform Geschichte 1900-1950 Architekturtheorie.
Architekturtheorie Bauform Geschichte 1900-1950.

Form/genre:

Academic Dissertation
dissertations.
Academic theses
Thèses et écrits académiques.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 249014
Call No.: BIB 178583
Status: Available