An act of dissimulation / [presented by] Peter Eisenman (Eisenman Architects).

Format:

Sound recording

Contributor:

Eisenman, Peter, 1932- narrator.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture--Aesthetics.

Architecture.

Architecture, Modern--20th century.

Architecture, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (29 minutes)): sound, color

Place of Publication:

London, England: Pidgeon Digital, 1985.

Summary:

Peter Eisenman was born in New Jersey and studied architecture at Cornell University (1951 - 1955), Columbia University (1959 - 1960) and Cambridge, England (1966 - 1963). He taught at Cambridge until 1967, then at Princeton for a year, followed by brief spells at Cooper Union, New York, the American Academy in Rome and the University of Maryland, and then at Harvard. But it was as founder-director of the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies, from 1967 - 1982, that he had the greatest influence. It provided a forum for discussion and became the most public and polemic voice on the East coast, extending its influence through its learned magazine "Oppositions", launched in 1973, which Eisenman edited during the decade of its existence, as well as through its monthly newspaper "Skyline". Eisenman ran his own practice during these years and exhibited in, or organised exhibitions in the USA, Italy and England, dealing with urban design and renewal, housing, Rationalism, drawing, as well as showing the houses he has designed. In this talk he says that, whereas Post Modernism simulates a fervour for simulation and a return to history, he seeks to create a "topos", a place for invention, not representing anything, just being. He illustrates this with his most recent work, the building won in competition for the Ohio State Visual Art Center in Columbus, Ohio. This project, he says, invents its origins, its site, its program, even its history, thus being an act of dissimulation; and it invents its own representation, thus becoming a text, a record of its own history, the history of the act of making the architecture.

Contents:

Peter Eisenman, 1984

Ohio State Visual Art Centre, Columbus, Ohio. Model Of Project

Ohio State Visual Art Centre, Columbus, Ohio. Aerial Photo Showing Site

Ohio State Visual Art Centre, Columbus, Ohio. Site & Existing Buildings

Ohio State Visual Art Centre, Columbus, Ohio. Early Plan Of Site

Ohio State Visual Art Centre, Columbus, Ohio. Frederick Law Olmsted Plan For Campus

Ohio State Visual Art Centre, Columbus, Ohio. Site Showing Axis From Town Grid To Stadium

Ohio State Visual Art Centre, Columbus, Ohio. Plan Showing Campus In Relation To Surroundings

Ohio State Visual Art Centre, Columbus, Ohio. Sine Curve Axis

Ohio State Visual Art Centre, Columbus, Ohio. Model Showing Axes & Traces Of Old Armoury

Ohio State Visual Art Centre, Columbus, Ohio. Old Armoury

Ohio State Visual Art Centre, Columbus, Ohio. Destruction Of Old Armoury

Arch Of Septimio Severo, Rome

Ohio State Visual Art Centre, Columbus, Ohio. Model Of New Armoury

Ohio State Visual Art Centre, Columbus, Ohio. New Armoury From The South

Ohio State Visual Art Centre, Columbus, Ohio. New Armoury From The West

Ohio State Visual Art Centre, Columbus, Ohio. New Armoury From The North

Ohio State Visual Art Centre, Columbus, Ohio. New Armoury From The North-West

Ohio State Visual Art Centre, Columbus, Ohio. New Armoury From The North-East

Ohio State Visual Art Centre, Columbus, Ohio. Section Through Long Gallery

Ohio State Visual Art Centre, Columbus, Ohio. Model Of Galleries With Roof Removed

Ohio State Visual Art Centre, Columbus, Ohio. Axonometrics From South-West & North-East

Ohio State Visual Art Centre, Columbus, Ohio. Model Of Project.

Notes:

Title from publisher's website (viewed April 26, 2021).

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.