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Personal Papers
AP143.S10
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Serie comprises personal papers, including medical, teaching, insurance, and legal documents, correspondence, texts, office memos, grant applications, and transcripts, including transcripts of an interview between Robert Hughes and Peter Eisenman.
1967-1994
Personal Papers
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AP143.S10
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Serie comprises personal papers, including medical, teaching, insurance, and legal documents, correspondence, texts, office memos, grant applications, and transcripts, including transcripts of an interview between Robert Hughes and Peter Eisenman.
Series 10
1967-1994
Project
AP143.S4.D6
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File documents an unexecuted project for Field Education buildings at Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey. Drawings are mostly by Peter Eisenman. Material in this file was produced in 1967. File contains conceptual drawings.
1967
Field Education Buildings, Princeton University
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AP143.S4.D6
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File documents an unexecuted project for Field Education buildings at Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey. Drawings are mostly by Peter Eisenman. Material in this file was produced in 1967. File contains conceptual drawings.
File 6
1967
Sub-series
AP143.S5.D18
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File documents Peter Eisenman's lectures, conferences and public appearances, between 1975 - 1999. File contains audiocassettes, videocassettes and textual documents, including transcripts and correspondence.
1975-1999
Lectures, conferences, symposia (including drafts, tape recordings, correspondence)
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AP143.S5.D18
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File documents Peter Eisenman's lectures, conferences and public appearances, between 1975 - 1999. File contains audiocassettes, videocassettes and textual documents, including transcripts and correspondence.
File 18
1975-1999
Series
Projects
AP143.S4
Description:
Series documents competition entries and projects by Peter Eisenman, and by the successive firms of Peter D. Eisenman, Architect; Eisenman/Robertson Architects; Design Development Resources, Limited Partnership; Esienman/Trott Architects; and Eisenman Architects. Several projects were carried out in association with other architects, institutions, and firms, including Michael Graves, the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies (IAUS), Hanna/Olin Ltd., Steven Holl Architects, and Robert A.M. Stern Architects. A majority of projects were designed for the United States, Germany, and Japan. Other project locations include Spain, Italy, France, the Netherlands, Austria, Canada, Switzerland, Kuwait, Belgium, South Korea, Australia, and China. Material in this series was produced between 1925 and 2007. Series contains competition drawings, conceptual and design development drawings, publication and presentation drawings and panels, reference drawings, and working drawings. It also contains photographic materials, textual records, models and artefacts. Series is roughly arranged chronologically by project date. Beginning sometime in the 1980s, project documents were sometimes identified by the office using the following numbering system: x-yy-zz AAA x = administrative category 1 - Administrative and General Indirect 2- General Promotion 3- Business Development 4- Publication and Promotion 5- Direct Fee (billable) 6- Products and other Design (non-billable) yy = year zz = Project # (assigned sequentially each year starting with 01) AAA= abbreviated name of project, e.g. PAS for Perth Amboy High School (used intermittently)
1925-2008, predominant 1960-2007
Projects
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AP143.S4
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Series documents competition entries and projects by Peter Eisenman, and by the successive firms of Peter D. Eisenman, Architect; Eisenman/Robertson Architects; Design Development Resources, Limited Partnership; Esienman/Trott Architects; and Eisenman Architects. Several projects were carried out in association with other architects, institutions, and firms, including Michael Graves, the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies (IAUS), Hanna/Olin Ltd., Steven Holl Architects, and Robert A.M. Stern Architects. A majority of projects were designed for the United States, Germany, and Japan. Other project locations include Spain, Italy, France, the Netherlands, Austria, Canada, Switzerland, Kuwait, Belgium, South Korea, Australia, and China. Material in this series was produced between 1925 and 2007. Series contains competition drawings, conceptual and design development drawings, publication and presentation drawings and panels, reference drawings, and working drawings. It also contains photographic materials, textual records, models and artefacts. Series is roughly arranged chronologically by project date. Beginning sometime in the 1980s, project documents were sometimes identified by the office using the following numbering system: x-yy-zz AAA x = administrative category 1 - Administrative and General Indirect 2- General Promotion 3- Business Development 4- Publication and Promotion 5- Direct Fee (billable) 6- Products and other Design (non-billable) yy = year zz = Project # (assigned sequentially each year starting with 01) AAA= abbreviated name of project, e.g. PAS for Perth Amboy High School (used intermittently)
Series 4
1925-2008, predominant 1960-2007
Project
AP143.S6.D12
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File documents Peter Eisenman's contribution to an exhibition organized by The Architectural League of New York and Minetta Brook for projects that were displayed in five non-art sites in SoHo, New York City, New York in Spring 1995.
1995
Architecture of Display, Comme des Garçons
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AP143.S6.D12
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File documents Peter Eisenman's contribution to an exhibition organized by The Architectural League of New York and Minetta Brook for projects that were displayed in five non-art sites in SoHo, New York City, New York in Spring 1995.
File 12
1995
Series
AP143.S3
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Serie documents Peter Eisenman's activities as part of the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies.
1971-1998
Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies (IAUS)
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AP143.S3
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Serie documents Peter Eisenman's activities as part of the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies.
Series 3
1971-1998
textual records
DR2007:0094
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box of textual records containing material including files relating to House I, House II, House III, House X, Peter Eisenman book exhibition at Princeton University (1968), Eisenman personal copies of articles (1919-1939), Eisenman resumes, Eisenman copies of Philip Johnson writings, and notes/transcript of Eisenman 1976 interview with Alessandra Latour and Lauretta Vinciarelli.
Box of textual records containing material including files relating to House I
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DR2007:0094
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box of textual records containing material including files relating to House I, House II, House III, House X, Peter Eisenman book exhibition at Princeton University (1968), Eisenman personal copies of articles (1919-1939), Eisenman resumes, Eisenman copies of Philip Johnson writings, and notes/transcript of Eisenman 1976 interview with Alessandra Latour and Lauretta Vinciarelli.
textual records
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Student Papers
AP143.S1
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Series documents Peter Eisenman's student work at the University of Cambridge School of Architecture and includes student papers, 2 essays (1960), thesis or dissertation (notes, draft, preparation), studio and lecture schedules, course syllabi and exercises, brochures, notes, diagrams, articles, and correspondence. Material was produced between 1960 and 1963.
1960-1963
Student Papers
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AP143.S1
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Series documents Peter Eisenman's student work at the University of Cambridge School of Architecture and includes student papers, 2 essays (1960), thesis or dissertation (notes, draft, preparation), studio and lecture schedules, course syllabi and exercises, brochures, notes, diagrams, articles, and correspondence. Material was produced between 1960 and 1963.
Series 1
1960-1963
Project
AP143.S4.D108
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The project series documents the executed project for Cites of Artificial Excavation, Madrid, Spain. Material in was produced between 1994 and 1995. In 1993, the CCA invited Peter Eisenman to design an installation for the exhibition 'Cities of Artificial Excavation: The Work of Peter Eisenman, 1978-1988'. The exhibition was presented at the CCA from 2 March to 29 May 1994. The drawings and models in this project series document the development of Eisenman's installation design from late 1993 through March 1994, as well as the various processes used by the architect in his investigation of the 'Cities of Artificial Excavation'. Eisenman uses a computer to superimpose, distort and multiply a Greek cross, while simultaneously modifying its plan and section. The computer enables the architect to generate geometric figures that are extremely difficult to produce by traditional means. It also constitutes a new phase in Eisenman's research into the depersonalization of the creative process, a central concern of his 'Cities of Artificial Excavation' (1978-1988). The Greek cross was one of the elements of the grid developed for the 'Museum of Artifical Excavation', and part of the project he submitted for the Internationale Bauausstellung in Berlin (1980-1986). The project series contains material by Eisenman's office including material for schemes A and B, the first and second proposals for the installation, as well as material for the exhibition installation. Material for scheme A includes conceptual drawings (DR1994:0030:001-005), hardline design development drawings (DR1994:0030:006-011), design development computer-aided drawings (DR1994:0030:012-027), and fully developed drawings (DR1994:0030:028-034). Material for scheme B, a design which is closer to the final project, includes hardline drawings (DR1994:0030:035-044) and computer-aided drawings (DR1994:0030:045-069). Material for the exhibition installation includes: computer-aided drawings (DR1994:0030:070-196) which were generated to construct models for the installation, notably a preliminary model (DR1994:0035) and the final model (DR1994:0036) which was used for planning the exhibition layout; hardline drawings which are the final drawings for the installation (DR1994:0030:262-265); a preliminary exhibition layout (DR1994:0030:280); and Iris colour prints of computer-aided conceptual axonometrics (DR1994:0030:281-282). Three working models show different stages of the design development (DR1994:0031 - DR1994:0034). Also included are photographs of the completed installation by Richard Pare (DR1994:0037:001-028), fragments of the installation preserved after its demolition (DR1994:0038:001-0028), and paint samples (DR1994:0038:035-037). The project series contains design development drawings, working drawings, photographic materials, publication drawings, reference drawings, textual records, and models.
1994-1995
Cities of Artificial Excavation, Madrid
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AP143.S4.D108
Description:
The project series documents the executed project for Cites of Artificial Excavation, Madrid, Spain. Material in was produced between 1994 and 1995. In 1993, the CCA invited Peter Eisenman to design an installation for the exhibition 'Cities of Artificial Excavation: The Work of Peter Eisenman, 1978-1988'. The exhibition was presented at the CCA from 2 March to 29 May 1994. The drawings and models in this project series document the development of Eisenman's installation design from late 1993 through March 1994, as well as the various processes used by the architect in his investigation of the 'Cities of Artificial Excavation'. Eisenman uses a computer to superimpose, distort and multiply a Greek cross, while simultaneously modifying its plan and section. The computer enables the architect to generate geometric figures that are extremely difficult to produce by traditional means. It also constitutes a new phase in Eisenman's research into the depersonalization of the creative process, a central concern of his 'Cities of Artificial Excavation' (1978-1988). The Greek cross was one of the elements of the grid developed for the 'Museum of Artifical Excavation', and part of the project he submitted for the Internationale Bauausstellung in Berlin (1980-1986). The project series contains material by Eisenman's office including material for schemes A and B, the first and second proposals for the installation, as well as material for the exhibition installation. Material for scheme A includes conceptual drawings (DR1994:0030:001-005), hardline design development drawings (DR1994:0030:006-011), design development computer-aided drawings (DR1994:0030:012-027), and fully developed drawings (DR1994:0030:028-034). Material for scheme B, a design which is closer to the final project, includes hardline drawings (DR1994:0030:035-044) and computer-aided drawings (DR1994:0030:045-069). Material for the exhibition installation includes: computer-aided drawings (DR1994:0030:070-196) which were generated to construct models for the installation, notably a preliminary model (DR1994:0035) and the final model (DR1994:0036) which was used for planning the exhibition layout; hardline drawings which are the final drawings for the installation (DR1994:0030:262-265); a preliminary exhibition layout (DR1994:0030:280); and Iris colour prints of computer-aided conceptual axonometrics (DR1994:0030:281-282). Three working models show different stages of the design development (DR1994:0031 - DR1994:0034). Also included are photographs of the completed installation by Richard Pare (DR1994:0037:001-028), fragments of the installation preserved after its demolition (DR1994:0038:001-0028), and paint samples (DR1994:0038:035-037). The project series contains design development drawings, working drawings, photographic materials, publication drawings, reference drawings, textual records, and models.
File 108
1994-1995
articles