Peter Esenman Portfolio

Author: Wang Shangzhuo
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Publish Date: 2003-06-01
Features: This book is a collection of works by Peter Eisenman, a renowned contemporary American architect and architectural theorist. The book features detailed and vivid images, accompanied by certain textual explanations, as well as comments by Eisenman and others on his architectural theories and works, which help readers better understand the master and his architectural theories and creations. One of his most distinctive traits in his works is the integration with a set of derivative and design rule-based methods in generating plans, without relying on the knowledge or experience accumulated from technical or cultural schools of thought. In elaborating on a school that lacks its own traditional historical perspective or even openly acknowledges the involvement of non-humanistic practical matters, I believe this is a very important procedural explanation.