Blurred Zones Eisenman Architects, 1988-1998

by Eisenman, Peter; Galiano, Luis; Hays, K. Michael

• ISBN13: 9781580930499
• ISBN10: 1580930492
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-06-02
• Publisher: The Monacelli Press

Summary

In the late 1980s, the New York-based office Eisenman Architects, led by architect and educator Peter Eisenman, shifted from an investigation of "artificial excavations" as an architectural tool to a conscious pursuit of a concept he called "blurring." Blurring is not a visual effect but rather deals with affect, that is, a strategy for exploring a mind/body relationship in architecture that displaces the conventional or expected experience of space. Blurring has many different definitions -- the between, the interstitial -- and takes many different forms in the work. Blurred Zones: Investigations of the Interstitialpresents seventeen design projects, both built and unbuilt, and twelve essays that attempt to illuminate and illustrate the conceptual activity of blurring. The work from this period begins in 1988, with a project for the Guardiola House in Cadiz, Spain, and continues until 1998, with the Memorial for the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin. Also shown in this monograph, with photographs and Eisenman's signature drawings, are the Aronoff Center for Design and Art at the University of Cincinnati and the Greater Columbus Convention Center, both in Ohio; the Nunotani Headquarters Building in Tokyo; the Max Reinhardt Haus in Berlin; and the entry for the Church for the Year 2000 competition in Rome. Complementing the design projects are texts by critics: philosopher Andrew Benjamin,ANYmagazine editor Cynthia Davidson, teacher and editor Luis Fernaacute;ndez-Galiano, architectural historian K. Michael Hays, literary critic Fredric Jameson, architect and teacher Franco Purini, and philosopher John Rajchman. Eisenman himself has written a series of essays on blurring, the interstitial, and undecidability, bringing together the preoccupations of his two roles: architect and theoretician.

Author Biography

Peter Eisenman is principal of Eisenman Architects in New York; Louis I. Kahn Professor of Architecture at Yale University; the author of a great number of books and articles, notably Giuseppe Terragni: Transformations, Decompositions, Critiques, a study of the Italian rationalist architect that begins to define an idea of the critical in architecture; and the subject of many others, including Cities of Artificial Excavation: The Work of Peter Eisenman, 1978-1988.

Table of Contents

Blurred Zones	p. 5
Guardiola House Cadiz, Spain	p. 10
Classicism Lost	p. 30
Aronoff Center for Design and Art Cincinnati, Ohio	p. 32
Aronoff and Ideology	p. 50
Milan Triennale Milan, Italy	p. 70
Koizumi Sangyo Office Building Tokyo, Japan	p. 76
Processes of the Interstitial	p. 94
Greater Columbus Convention Center Columbus, Ohio	p. 102
Banyoles Olympic Hotel Banyoles, Spain	p. 122
Folding in Time: The Singularity of Rebstock Peter Eisenman	p. 130
Rebstockpark Master Plan Frankfurt, Germany	p. 134
Perplications: On the Space and Time of Rebstockpark	p. 150
Nunotani Headquarters Building Tokyo, Japan	p. 162
A Game of Eisenman Seeks	p. 176
Emory University Center for the Arts Atlanta, Georgia	p. 180
Whose M Emory?	p. 202
Max Reinhardt Haus Berlin, Germany	p. 208
Conservatory and Contemporary Arts Center Tours, France	p. 222
Klingelhofer-Dreieck Housing Berlin, Germany	p. 236
Nordliches Derendorf Master Plan Dusseldorf, Germany	p. 244
Zones of Undecidability I	p. 258
Church for the Year 2000 Rome, Italy	p. 262
PaperArt Installation Duren, Germany	p. 280
Zones of Undecidability II	p. 286
Bibliotheque de L'Ihuei Geneva, Switzerland	p. 290
Opening the Interstitial: Eisenman's Space of Difference	p. 306
Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe Berlin, Germany	p. 312
Germania Remember: Berlin's Memorial or Eisenman's Danteum?	p. 332
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