HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE IV

Module 4(g)
History of Architecture IV
Faculty - Ar. Laxmi Menon
Assistant Professor
 Peter Eisenman
• Born – Norman Robert foster
August 11, 1932 (age 89)
Newark, New Jersey, U.S.
• Peter Eisenman is an American architect.
Considered one of the New York Five, Eisenman
is known for his writing and speaking about
architecture as well as his designs, which have
been called high modernist or deconstructive.
• He received a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Cornell, a Master of
Architecture degree from Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture,
Planning and Preservation, and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of
Cambridge.
• He received an honorary degree from Syracuse University School of
Architecture in 2007.
• He currently teaches theory seminars and advanced design studios at the Yale
School of Architecture.
• He is Professor Emeritus at the Cooper Union School of Architecture.Previously,
he taught at the University of Cambridge, Harvard University, the University of
Pennsylvania, Princeton University School of Architecture, and the Ohio State
University.
• Peter Eisenman founded the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies in
1967, serving as its Executive Director until 1981. After 50 years in academia,
he is regarded as an influential teacher by generations of alumni/ae.
• His professional work is often referred to as formalist, deconstructive, late
avant-garde, late or high modernist, etc.
• A certain fragmenting of forms visible in some of his projects has been
identified as characteristic of an eclectic group of architects that were
(self-)labeled as deconstructivists.

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