Collects nineteen of Peter Eisenman's most important essays with illustrations and a new introduction by the author. These writings assemble the ideas that established and provoked contemporary architectural practice and theory.
This book, which introduces his writings to an English-speaking audience, provides a striking social and philosophical account of the twentieth-century metropolis.
He then examines the work of Adolf Loos and other architects and designers in early twentieth-century Vienna, showing how their architecture and criticism expose the alienation and utopianism in notions of the organic city.
In this profoundly original book, Jennifer Bloomer addresses important philosophical questions concerning the relation between writing and architecture.
In this profoundly original book, Jennifer Bloomer addresses important philosophical questions concerning the relation between writing and architecture.
In this suggestive inquiry into the operations of linearity in architectural theory and practice, Catherine Ingraham investigates the line as both a conceptual and literal force in architecture.