The Formal Basis of Modern Architecture by Peter Eisenman

The Formal Basis of Modern Architecture by Peter Eisenman

Peter Eisenman-world-famous for his Holocaust Memorial in Berlin (2005)-confronts historicism with theory and the analysis of form, whose distinguishing features he regards as the foundation of architectural composition. The architect illustrates his observations with numerous, extremely precise hand drawings. Eisenman wrote The Formal Basis of Modern Architecture, his dissertation, in 1963 at the University of Cambridge. The dissertation was first published as a facsimile edition by Lars Muller Publishers in 2006. The original content of the publication is now available again-the book is reprinted in a smaller format. "I knew what I wanted to write," Eisenman says of the dissertation. "An analytic work that related what I had learned to see, from Palladio to Terragni, from Raphael to Guido Reni, into some theoretical construct that would bear on modern architecture, but from the point of view of a certain autonomy of form." Hence the title of his research.

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9783037785737
ISBN 10	303778573X
Title	The Formal Basis of Modern Architecture
Author	Peter Eisenman
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Lars Muller Publishers
Year published	2018-10-31
Number of pages	384
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
Note	Unavailable