About:

Peter Eisenman was a prominent member of a group of architects called The New York Five in the 1960s and early 1970s. A former editor of the journal Oppostions, this well-known architect and architectural theorist has taught at Cambridge, Princeton and Cooper Union where he was founder and director of the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies.  His early career centered on his theoretical writings and drawings. He has designed several prominent works such as the Berlin Holocaust Memorial and the Aronoff Center for Art and Design at the University of Cincinnati.

Books:

Cities of artificial excavation : the work of Peter Eisenman. Montreal : Canadian Centre for Architecture ; New York : Rizzoli International, 1994. CCNY Arch. Library. On reserve.

Code X : the city of culture of Galicia / Eisenman Architects; edited by Cynthia Davidson.  Monacelli, 2005.   NA6813 .S72 S273 2005.

Eisenman, Peter. Blurred Zones : Works and Projects 1988-1998.  New York: Monacelli, 2000. (not yet published; on order).

_____________. Diagram diaries. Universe, 1999.  NA737.E33 A4 1999.

_____________. House X. New York: Rizzoli, 1982. CCNY Arch. Library.NA737.E5 E5.

_____________. Houses of cards. New York : Oxford University Press, 1987. CCNY Arch. Library. On reserve.

Eisenman Architects : selected and current works. Mulgrave, Vic. : Images Pub. Group, 1995. CCNY Arch. Library. Ref NA737.E33 A4 1995.

Eisenman inside out : selected writings, 1963-1988. Yale University Press, 2004.   NA737 .E33 A35 2004.

Eleven authors in search of a building : the Aronoff Center for Design and Art at the University of  Cincinnati / a  building by Eisenman Architects ; a book edited by Cynthia C. Davidson. New York : Monacelli Press, 1996. CCNY Arch. Library. NA737.E33 E43 1996.

Five architects: Eisenman, Graves, Gwathmey, Hejduk, Meier. Oxford University Press, 1975. NA7208 .F54 1975.

Frank, Suzanne S. (Suzanne Shulof). Peter Eisenman's House VI : the client's response . New York : Whitney Library of Design, 1994.*

Peter Eisenman : Barfuss auf weiss glühenden Mauern = Barefoot on white-hot walls.  Hatje Cantz, 2004.  NA737 .E33 A4 2004.

Peter Eisenman : recente projecten. Nijmegen : SUN ; Amsterdam, the Netherlands : Idea Books <distributor>, 1989.  CCNY Arch. Library. NA737.E33 P47 1989.

Re-working Eisenman. London : Academy Editions ; Berlin : Ernst & Sohn ; <New York: Distributed to the trade in the USA by St. Martin's Press, 1993. CCNY Library. On reserve.
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These books are or will be available in the library as indicated. (*denotes books which the library will obtain for patrons through the its inter-library loan service)
 

Articles:  (Selected from 1995-2005)

"Peter Eisenman: Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, Berlin, Germany 1998-2005."
Eisenmann, Peter., A + U: architecture and urbanism, no. 8(419), pp. [36]-53, Aug 2005.

"En-Chora/ Apter, Emily., Grey room, no. 20, pp. 80-83, Summer 2005
    Note: On a "Letter to Peter Eisenman" from Jacques Derrida, published in Assemblage (August 1990), and originally written in Oct. 1989 "in lieu of Derrida's presence at the conference 'Postmodernism and beyond..." and it's relationship to their Chora project. (Avery Index online)

"iIl giardino dei passi perduti = The garden of lost footsteps."  Irace, Fulvio., Abitare, no. 442, pp. 111-[149], 222, Sept 2004

"Peter Eisenman: the box of changes."  Eisenman, Peter, [1932-], Domus, no. 870, pp. [92]-[99], May 2004
    Note: Peter Eisenman recently participated in the competition to design a public square and museum in the heart of Guangzhou. For the museum proposal Eisenman drew inspiration from the Chinese logic of "I Ching."  (Avery Index Online)

"Challenging norms: Eisenman's obsession [interview]."  Eisenman, Peter, [1932-]; Ivy, Robert A., Architectural record, vol. 191, no. 10, pp. [82]-86, 88, Oct 2003
    Note: Interview with Peter Eisenman on his role in architectural culture. (Avery Index online)

"Building Think Tank: Part XVII: letter to Peter Eisenman."  MacNair, Andrew., A + U: architecture and urbanism, no. 9(396), pp. 130-132, Sept 2003
Building Think Tank is a series of "correspondences" about the culture of architecture as work-in-progress within an international and historic fabric.

"Peter Eisenman: TSA Cardinals multipurpose facility, Glendale, Arizona, U.S.A."  GA document, no. 73, pp. 102-105, Apr 2003

"The new paradigm and September 11th: Peter Eisenman in conversation with Charles Jencks [interview]."  Jencks, Charles, [1939-]; Eisenman, Peter, [1932-], Architectural design, vol. 72, no. 4, pp. 98-106, July 2002.

"Eisenman Architects: bus stop, Aachen, Germany" / Hans van Dijk. Architecture 2000 Jan., v.89, n.1, p.[108]-[111].

"Railway dog? / James S. Russell. Grid 1999 Fall, v.1, n.4, p.72-77. "Best Western? Peter Eisenman trumps other finalists in a competition to develop Manhattan's last frontier" / Valerie Gladstone. Metropolis 1999 Oct., v.19, n.2, p.104-109.

"Six degrees of Phyllis Lambert, or, six figures for Peter Eisenman" / Michael Sorkin. Metropolis 1999 Nov., v.19, n.3, p.82,84.

"Reconceiving western midtown Manhattan" / Nina Rappaport. Oculus 1999 Oct., v.62, n.2, p.6-8.

"Mies-takes" / Wes Jones. ANY 1999, n.24, p.[36]-43.

"Eisenman, Hadid, Jahn, Koolhaas, Sejima: progetti per il campus IIT a Chicago" / Nicholas Adams. Casabella 1999 Feb., v.63, n.664, p.16-23.

"Stadiums." Architecture 1998 Nov., v.87, n.11, p.124-131.

"The Peter principles [interview]. Architecture 1998 Nov., v.87, n.11, p.87-[93].

"Laberintos del orden: el Memorial del Holocausto en Berlín" / Luis Fernández-Galiano. Arquitectura viva 1998 Sept.-Oct., n.62, p.76-7.

"The price of vision: can a university really afford designer architecture?" / Jay Murphy. Metropolis 1998 Aug.-Sept., v.18, n.1, p.78-81,83,85.

"Free of radicals" / Vicky Richardson. RIBA journal 1998 June, v.106, n.6, p.10-[11],13.

"How to judge (-,) Peter Eisenman / Mirko Zardini." ANY 1997, n.21, p.[27]-31.

"Peter Eisenman: Church for the Year 2000." GA document 1997 Apr., n.51, p.16-19.

"Peter Eisenman 1990-1997." Croquis 1997, n.83, entire issue.

"Peter Eisenman: scolpire lo spazio = Sculpting the space." Domus 1997 Apr., n.792, suppl., p.87-[89].
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"Place of Nations, Geneva, Switzerland" / Ned Cramer. Architecture 1997 Oct., v.86, n.10, p.[44]-39,41

"Architektur im Zeitalter der elektronischen Medien / Peter Eisenman." Werk, Bauen + Wohnen 1996 Mar., n.3, p.34-47.

"Eisenman (and company) respond."  1995 Feb., v.76, n.2, p.88-91.
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Articles listed above are available in the CCNY Architecture Library

Web Sites:

Eisenman Architects  www.eisenmanarchitects.com/
Projects by and biographical information about Peter Eisenman.

designboom.com  http://www.designboom.com/eng/interview/eisenman.html
Transcript of a 2002 interview with Eisenman.

Stanford Presidential Lectures   prelectur.stanford.edu/lecturers/eisenman/index.html
A 1998 anaylsis of Eisenman's work by Peter Blank. Good annotated bibliography available as well
as excerpts from Eisenman lectures and critiques of his work.
 
 
 
 

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Judy Connorton
Architecture Librarian
February 2006