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    Peter Eisenman

    … hypochondriac, so George McCormack, who was my doctor for 40 years, because if you’re a hypochondriac and you constantly think you’re going to die of something, you need the doctor to tell you you’re still alive. ** Something new: I’m writing an essay on the New Subjectivity. I also have a …

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    Tracing Palladio in Peter Eisenman's Works

    … Model, Image by Peter Eisenman and Matt Roman Sben Korsh is a BA candidate studying both architecture history and writing through the CUNY Baccalaureate Program for Unique and Interdisciplinary Study.  He is a City College Fellow and Weston Public Service Scholarship recipient. Follow him on Twitter @SbenKorsh

  • Viewpoints

    MoMA's "Endless House" Is a Bleak Affair

    … Dwelling for a Family of Five project (1970) seen at center. © 2015 The Museum of Modern Art/Courtesy Jonathan Muzikar A large model of Peter Eisenman's Max Reinhardt Haus project dominates part of the exhibition space. © 2015 The Museum of Modern Art/Courtesy Jonathan Muzikar

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    Q&A: Greg Lynn on Architecture's Early Flirtations With the Computer

    … you’d like to explore in future editions? In the next show, we’ll have between six and ten projects which posed the biggest problems for the CCA—everything has a mechanical-robot component to it and deals with scripting, animation, and expression tools, which are the toughest things to archive. The last show …

  • The Wrapper building

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    Eric Owen Moss Architects’ (W)rapper Building Rises in Los Angeles

    … BONNER Developing (W)rapper’s Stunning Structure (W)rapper’s design grew out of a 1998 installation called “Dancing Bleachers,” which Moss’s firm completed at the Peter Eisenman–designed Wexner Center in Columbus, Ohio, responding to that building’s omnipresent square grids by employing a series of grids based, in contrast, on curves. So …

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    50 Years of NeoCon

    … designers would approach workstations, with new demands for power and data connectivity. Stylistically, with the first exhibition of Memphis design in Milan in 1981, Postmodernism found its way from architecture to furniture. Manufacturers enlisted noted Postmodern and Deconstructivist architects such as Robert Venturi, Frank Gehry, and Peter Eisenman to design objects and furniture. 1990s …

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    Richard Meier in Miniature

    … the museum. Also on display are Meier's first model for the Smith House, in Connecticut, and his proposal for the World Trade Center site (designed with Peter Eisenman, Charles Gwathmey, and Steven Holl), among many others. All of the models, Meier noted, were made possible thanks to the work of the hundreds and hundreds …

  • Viewpoints

    Of Fundamentals and Fundamentalists: Critics Talk Koolhaas's Biennale

    … and predictable given the cinematic career of head curator, Rem Koolhaas. Is it really surprising that his biennale has set off critical firecrackers scorching across the Web? Peter Eisenman goes deeper still, claiming that “Fundamentals” is about the end of Rem, the end of architecture, the end of “archistars.” It’s about Rem taking down …

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    Eisenman Has at It

    … Common Room, Matter Architecture Practice, OpenShop Studio, and David Wallance earned praise in a biennial competition that celebrates small local firms building distinctive practices. But when juror Peter Eisenman started in with comments, the salute felt a little more like a Bronx cheer. "What I missed was an ideological position," the imposing theorist/superstar/Yale …

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    Metropolitan Memories

    … and has since been completely altered. The Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies was, under the leadership of Peter Eisenman, veering off into more and more esoteric landscapes (though, as I noted in Metropolis, it did produce inventive proposals for redesigning Columbus Circle). The housing projects of the Bronx and Brooklyn had disintegrated into …