5. DECONSTRUCTIVISM
is a development of Postmodern
Architecture that began in the
late 1980s. It centers on the
ideas of FRAGMENTATION, an
interest in manipulating ideas of
a structure's surface that distort
some of the elements of
architecture itself.
Deconstructivists seek to move
architecture Away From what
they see as the confining 'Rules'
of modernism such as "Form
Follows Function", "Purity Of
Form", and "Truth To Materials.”
THEY PREFER TO STIMULATE
UNPREDICTABILITY AND
CONTROL CHAOS.
9. Born in 1932
PETER
EISENMAN
Is an American
Architect. A
DECONSTRUCTIVIST
(Follows the
Deconstruction Design
Approach.)
HIS theories on architecture pursue the emancipation and
autonomy of the discipline and his work represents a continued
attempt to liberate form from all meaning.
HE had strong cultural relationships with European intellectuals like
his English mentor COLIN ROWE and the Italian historian MANFREDO
TAFURI.
10. HIS Practice…
At first EISENMAN rose as a member
of the New York Five (also known as
THE FIVE WHITES.)
HIMSELF
CHARLES GWATHMEY
JOHN HEJDUK
RICHARD MEIER
& MICHAEL GRAVES
12. JUBILEE CHURCH
(Rome - Italy)
HIMSELF
CHARLES GWATHMEY
JOHN HEJDUK
RICHARD MEIER
& MICHAEL GRAVES
13. KREUZBERG TOWER
(Berlin - Germany)
HIMSELF
CHARLES GWATHMEY
JOHN HEJDUK
RICHARD MEIER
& MICHAEL GRAVES
14. MUSEUM OF
CONTEMPORARY ART
(North Miami – Florida)
HIMSELF
CHARLES GWATHMEY
JOHN HEJDUK
RICHARD MEIER
& MICHAEL GRAVES
15. THESE ARCHITECTS' WORK AT THE
TIME WAS OFTEN CONSIDERED A
REWORKING OF THE IDEAS OF LE
CORBUSIER.
EACH DEVELOPED UNIQUE STYLES
AND IDEOLOGIES, WITH EISENMAN
BECOMING MORE AFFILIATED WITH
THE DECONSTRUCTIVIST MOVEMENT.
16. MEMORIAL TO THE
MURDERED JEWS OF EUROPE
(Berlin – Germany)
HIMSELF
CHARLES GWATHMEY
JOHN HEJDUK
RICHARD MEIER
& MICHAEL GRAVES
17. OTHER PROJECTS BY
PETER EISENMAN
HOUSE VI (FRANK RESIDENCE)
(Cornwall – Connecticut)
18. OTHER PROJECTS BY
PETER EISENMAN
WEXNER CENTER FOR THE ARTS
(Ohio State University - Ohio)
20. COMPLEX GEOMETRY
EISENMAN has developed increasingly COMPLEX
FORMULATIONS regarding the architectural design
process, especially in regards to the role of
STRUCTURE IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY.
A DIFFERENT IDEOLOGY
HIS architectural design theories
are drawn from Outside Existing
Architectural Dogma, most
notably from Philosophy &
Linguistics.
With references to rhetorical
strategies, societal alienation,
and existing architectural forms.
EISENMAN's theoretical work
derives much from FRIEDRICH
NIETZSCHE, NOAM CHOMSKY &
JACQUES DERRIDA.
21. A NEW DESIGN PROCESS
EISENMAN suggests a psychological void which provokes
individual and cultural anxiety and dislocation. By inducing
destabilization and rupture in the very structures so long
associated with comfort and shelter. Yet classifying Eisenman's
oeuvre, is to miss the essential thrust of his process.
NEW/OLD CONNECTION
While working with the New
York Five, EISENMAN sought a
return to the origins of 20th-
century modernism, as seen in
the early works of Le Corbusier,
the Italian Rationalist Giuseppe
Terragni (1904-1943), and the
Dutch De Stijl movement
architect Gerrit Rietveld (1888-
1964). The work of the New York
Five was driven by the more
Abstract And Theoretical aspects
of this architecture.
22. “If the Conceptual Underpinnings Are Not
Readily Apparent Or Easily Seen in his
designs and buildings, the texts of these
precursors certainly underlay
EISENMAN's own, both Literally and
Architecturally.”
Peter Blank
