Architect -Peter EisenmanIntroduction Peter Eisenman was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1932. He studied at Cornell and Columbia Universities and then at Cambridge University in England. He taught at Cambridge, Princeton and the Cooper Union in New York, where he was founder and director of the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies. Eisenman first rose to prominence as a member of the New York Five, a team of five architects. Architect -Peter Eisenman Eisenman's latter works show a sympathy with the "antihumanist" ideas of deconstructionism.Introduction These architects' work at the time was often considered a reworking of the ideas of Le Corbusier. with Eisenman becoming more affiliated with the Deconstructivist movement. Subsequently. the five architects each developed unique styles and ideologies. Architect -Peter Eisenman . His earlier houses weIntroductionre "generated" from a transformation of forms. Eisenman works with grids and well ordered overlays Architect -Peter Eisenman . Eisenman's buildings are purely arranged forms that. Eisenman's fragmented forms are identified with an eclectic group of architects that have been. in their arbitrary overlay of different grids. gesture towards the uncertainty of all well-ordered. The work of philosopher Jacques Derrida is a key influence in Eisenman's architecture.Philosophy/Ideology He is one of the foremost practitioners of deconstructivism in American architecture. at times unwillingly. labelled deconstructivists. works Architect -Peter Eisenman . Spain City of Culture of Galicia (Cidade da Cultura de Galicia) is a complex architecural environment under construction in Santiago de Compostela. following an architectural design competition hosted by the Parliament of Galicia in February 1999. Galicia.Santiago de Compostela. It was designed by architect Peter Eisenman and office. a small hill overlooking Santiago de Compostela. the City of Culture is a new cultural center for the Province of Galicia in northwestern Spain. Architect -Peter Eisenman City of Culture of Galicia City of Culture of Galicia . began construction in 2001-2002 with an initial budget of €109m Located on Monte Gaiás. Spain. .The objective of the design was to convert Mount Gaias into a 'beacon of knowledge' for pilgrims. The construction is a complex learning environment for the following buildings: Museum of Galician History New Technologies Center Music Theater Galician Library Periodicals Archive Central Services building Architect -Peter Eisenman City of Culture of Galicia The design for the City of Culture was inspired by the five pilgrim routes inside the medieval city that lead to the cathedral. First. Second. through computer modeling software. a modern Cartesian grid is laid over these medieval routes. Architect -Peter Eisenman City of Culture of Galicia The design evolves from the superposition of three sets of information. thus generating a topological surface that repositions old and new in a simultaneous matrix never before seen. Third. . the street plan of the medieval center of Santiago is overlaid on a topographic map of the hillside site (which overlooks the city). the topography of the hillside is allowed to distort the two flat geometries. The Archive and all of the buildings are linked below grade to a service tunnel Architect -Peter Eisenman City of Culture of Galicia It features a double roof: an inner. waterproof membrane and an outer. stone-clad layer that channels heavy rain off the surface and hides roof mechanicals . The Master plan Architect -Peter Eisenman Photo courtesy Eisenman Architects Competition model. 1999 City of Culture of Galicia Red lines show the service tunnels below the hill.Orange is the floor area iside the building. . City of Culture of Galicia Image courtesy Eisenman Architects Volumetric analysis Photo courtesy Eisenman Architects South facade of Hemeroteca looking west Photo courtesy Eisenman Architects Interior of Hemeroteca elevations Architect -Peter Eisenman . Cardinals Stadium Architect -Peter Eisenman Cardinals Stadium Glendale. Arizona . rodeos. Arizona. earth-friendly stadium for the University of Phoenix It has become a landmark facility for Arizona The Stadium is a multi-purpose facility with the ability to host football. consumer shows. basketball. motorsports. and corporate events Architect -Peter Eisenman Cardinals Stadium Cardinals Stadium is a football stadium currently under construction in Glendale. soccer. Hunt Construction Group. concerts. and Urban Earth Design to design an innovative. .Architect Peter Eisenman worked in conjunction with HOK Sport. . vertical glass slots alternate with reflective metal panels The roof has two large retractable panels that will uncover the entire playing field while providing maximum shading for fans. The roof can be closed and the facility air conditioned in the hot months The translucent “Bird-Air” fabric roof allow the stadium to have an open.Along the stadium facade. a widespread plant in the Arizona desert. airy feel even when the roof is closed Architect -Peter Eisenman Cardinals Stadium The shape of the stadium is loosely modeled after a barrel cactus. Architect -Peter Eisenman Cardinals Stadium The roof of the stadium is made of PTFE (Poly-tetra-fluoroethylene) fiberglass high translucency fabric membrane. . stays outside in the sun until game day.000 square feet (over 2 acres) of natural grass. allow the necessary sunshine to reach the grass.9 million pound tray. . The field. The tray has a sophisticated irrigation system and holds a few inches of water to keep the grass moist.Architect -Peter Eisenman Cardinals Stadium The stadium has a fully retractable natural grass playing field. The grass field rolls out of the stadium on a 18. with 94. This allows the grass to get maximum sun and nourishment and also frees upthe theentire stadium the field having floor for other roof retract to events. Architect -Peter Eisenman .Cardinals Stadium Exterior View when the top retractable panels are closed. Within this zone the Nunotani building is seen as a metaphoric record of the continuous waves of movement as the plates overlap. which consists of studio and office spaces. 1990-1992 The client for this 40000 square foot headquarters building on the outskirts of Tokyo is an international commercial design company. The president of the company requested an "aggressive. created the islands of Japan through volcanic activity and tectonic plate movement.Nunotani Corporation Headquarters Tokyo . over millions ofyears .Japan. cafeteria. a multimedia presentation room. Surface waves that move through the striated landscape in and around Tokyo periodically compress and expand the continuous plate structure of the Edogawa District. and traditional Japanese resting rooms. CONCEPT The landmass of Japan is located at the point of collision between the western pacific continental plate and the Pacific oceanic plate. library.Peter Eisenman . contemporary image" for the building. produced by earthquake activity. CAD workrooms. Friction from the subterranean movement of these two plates has. Architect -Peter Eisenman . second. and skeletal) and the other as a symbol of power and dominance. Traditionally. in particular. our project represents an attempt to rethink the symbolism of the vertical office building. rather. by producing an image somewhere between an erect and a "limp" condition. symmetrical. phallocentrism.Simultaneous to this analogue. Architect -Peter Eisenman . one as a metaphor of anthropocentrism (the human vertebrate as upright. the vertical building had two metaphoric connotations. Our building symbolically seeks to undermine these two centrisms. first by producing a building that is not metaphorically skeletal or striated but. and. one that is made up of a shell of vertically compressed and translate plates. . . . . . wikipedia.arcspace.net) Great Buildings (http://www.ebescohost.com) Arcspace (http://www.com) Encyclopedia Britannica Architect -Peter Eisenman .com) ArchPEDIA (http://www.com) ArchINFORM (http://www.Bibliography Wikipedia (http://en.com) ebescoHOST (http://www.com) Designboom (http://www.greatbuildings.designboom.eisenmanarchitects.archinform.archpedia.com) Eisenman Architects ( http://www.