EISENMAN'S EARLY WORK

Eisenman's Early Work

Eisenman's Early Work

Eisenman studied at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York (BA, 1955), Columbia University, New York (MS, 1960) and Cambridge University (MA, 1962, Ph.D., 1963). In 1967 he founded the Institute of Architecture and Urban Studies in New York, and from 1973 to 1982 he was editor of the institute, oppositions, which was one of the main journals of architectural thinking. He also taught at several universities, including Cambridge University, Princeton University, Yale University, Harvard University, Ohio State University and Cooper Union in New York.

During his tenure at the Institute of Architecture and Urban Studies, Eisenman became famous as a theorist of architecture. He thought outside the traditional parameters of the "finished work" of himself rather than a conceptual way of architecture, which represents the process of architecture through diagrams rather than through actual construction . In his designs are fragmented architectural models in a way that was based on the concepts of philosophy and linguistics, in particular the ideas of the philosophers Friedrich Nietzsche and Derrida, Jacques and the linguist Noam Chomsky. Because of these affiliations, Eisenman was classified alternately as a postmodernist, deconstructionist and poststructuralist.

From the end of 1960, Eisenman's ideas took shape in a series of numbers, for example, houses, Casa I (1967-68) in Princeton, New Jersey, House II (1969-70) in Hardwick, Vermont, and House VI (1972 - 75) in Cornwall, Connecticut These structures were in fact a series of experiments referred to the rigid geometry of modernism and rectangular plans, but take these elements for an extreme theory: in details like the stairs leading nowhere and columns that do not work as support for the structure, functional Eisenman rejected the concept that was in the center of modernism lot. This initial work, which some critics saw as nihilistic, earned him a place as one of the "New York Five", along with future postmodernist Richard Meier and Michael Graves.

In 1980, Eisenman established a practice in New York. Embarked on a series of major projects, which is characterized by disconcerting ways, angles and materials, including the Wexner Center for the Visual Arts (1983-89) Ohio State University in Columbus, the Greater Columbus (Ohio) Center Conventions (1993), and the Aronoff Center for Design and Art (1996), University of Cincinnati (Ohio). The Wexner Center, one of the best known of its committees, Eisenman ignore traditional planning by creating a network for north-south spine of the building that was exactly perpendicular to the axis from east to west campus. He also challenged the expectations of viewers in the materials, enclosing half the space in the glass and half on the scaffold. Among his later projects were the award-winning Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe (opened 2005) in Berlin and the University of Phoenix Stadium (opened in 2006) in Glendale, Arizona

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