The book is a combined memoir and impressionistic history of the
Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies. At first affiliated
with New York's Museum of Modern Art and Cornell University, the
Institute housed architects, artists and historians who worked on
creative design and intellectual projects and would become world
renown. Its creation and direction was in the hands of its able
leader, Peter Eisenman. Besides a documentary study of the work
that went on there, among an international clearing house, the book
is laced with impressions of the author's experience there. It has
been in the works for over 12 years and was originally financed by
the Graham Foundation for the Study of the Fine Arts and has
subsequently been aided by Dr. Jenny Kaufmann. The photographs of
the Institute at the height of its activity are included and so
does an original ground plan of its West 40th Street office done by
Scott Brandi who also designed the book. It ends with 27 interviews
of prominent members of the Institute who comment on it and their
experiences. The book should appeal to architecture students and
those interested in architecture and urbanism of the seventies when
the government in the United States was more reasonable in economic
and political equity.
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