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As climate, culture, and technology evolve and become increasingly
unpredictable, architecture's stasis becomes more incongruous.
Werewolf explores an emerging but under-investigated branch of
architecture that embraces the transformation of form, performance,
and the responsiveness to environments and context. These ideas are
studied through architectural precedents and framed by critical
essays by Jesse Reiser, Greg Lynn, Jimenez Lai, Spyros Papapetros,
Kari Weil, as well as the editors. The shift from passive buildings
to reactive structures is now imperative, as climate change and
political turmoil exacerbate the unpredictability of environments.
Werewolf expands on the architect's agency to critically address
political, social, and environmental unrest. Revealing the cunning
and agile ways in which architecture can negotiate rather than
resist change, this book departs from the fixed Vitruvian man and
uses the figure of the werewolf to propose a model where changes of
state, mutation, and decomposition are conceptually fundamental.
A provocative case for historical ambiguity in architecture by one
of the field's leading theorists Conceptions of modernity in
architecture are often expressed in the idea of the zeitgeist, or
"spirit of the age," an attitude toward architectural form that is
embedded in a belief in progressive time. Lateness explores how
architecture can work against these linear currents in startling
and compelling ways. In this incisive book, internationally
renowned architect Peter Eisenman, with Elisa Iturbe, proposes a
different perspective on form and time in architecture, one that
circumvents the temporal constraints on style that require it to be
"of the times"-lateness. He focuses on three twentieth-century
architects who exhibited the qualities of lateness in their
designs: Adolf Loos, Aldo Rossi, and John Hejduk. Drawing on the
critical theory of Theodor Adorno and his study of Beethoven's
final works, Eisenman shows how the architecture of these canonical
figures was temporally out of sync with conventions and
expectations, and how lateness can serve as a form of release from
the restraints of the moment. Bringing together architecture,
music, and philosophy, and drawing on illuminating examples from
the Renaissance and Baroque periods, Lateness demonstrates how
today's architecture can use the concept of lateness to break free
of stylistic limitations, expand architecture's critical capacity,
and provide a new mode of analysis.
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.
Aldo Rossi, a practicing architect and leader of the Italian
architectural movement La Tendenza, is also one of the most
influential theorists writing today. The Architecture of the City
is his major work of architectural and urban theory. In part a
protest against functionalism and the Modern Movement, in part an
attempt to restore the craft of architecture to its position as the
only valid object of architectural study, and in part an analysis
of the rules and forms of the city's construction, the book has
become immensely popular among architects and design students.An
Oppositions Book.
Architecture and Psychoanalysis is an analysis of the relation
between psychoanalytic theory and compositional strategies in
architecture. In psychoanalysis it focuses on the writing of
Jacques Lacan as well as theories of the structure of the psyche,
linguistics, and perception. In architecture it focuses on the
writings and projects of Peter Eisenman. There are extended
discussions on the thought of figures such as Sigmund Freud,
Ferdinand de Saussure, and Jacques Derrida, and of the architecture
of figures such as Leon Battista Alberti, Francesco Borromini,
Giuseppe Terragni, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
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