Perfect Acts of Architecture

by Kipnis, Jeffrey; Riley, Terence; Geldin, Sherri

• ISBN13: 9780870700392
• ISBN10: 0870700391
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-06-01
• Publisher: Museum of Modern Art

Summary

Perfect Acts of Architecturecollects six sets of highly inventive drawings by contemporary avant-garde architects Rem Koolhaas and Elia Zenghelis, Peter Eisenman, Bernard Tschumi, Daniel Libeskind and Thom Mayne. Created between 1972 and 1988 (when many architects turned to teaching as economic conditions had drastically curtailed building commissions), these works reflect the period's intellectual debates and propose graphic experimentation as a mode of research. Each suite of drawings offers great insight into the creative processes of six young designers, who have since gone on to establish major international reputations. Setting this "paper architecture" in a broader historical backdrop, Jeffrey Kipnis and Terence Riley provide introductory texts and concise commentaries on each of the projects.

Table of Contents

Foreword	7	(2)
Sherri Geldin
Glenn D. Lowry
Preface	9	(1)
Terence Riley
Acknowledgments	10	(2)
Jeffrey Kipnis
An Introduction to a Perfect Act	12	(2)
Jeffrey Kipnis
Exodus, or the Voluntary Prisoners of Architecture	14	(20)
Rem Koolhaas
Elia Zenghelis
Madelon Vriesendorp
Zoe Zenghelis
House VI	34	(24)
Peter Eisenman
The Manhattan Transcripts	58	(52)
Bernard Tschumi
Micromegas	110	(14)
Daniel Libeskind
Chamber Works: Architectural Mediations on Themes from Heraclitus	124	(30)
Daniel Libeskind
Sixth Street House	154	(16)
Thom Mayne
Andrew Zago
Works Illustrated	170	(8)
Selected Bibliography	178