Selected Bibliography: Writings of Peter Eisenman, 1963–1988

“Modern Architecture 1919–1939: Polemics,” Princeton University Library (catalogue with introduction and annotations for an exhibition of architectural books; unpublished).

1969

“The Big Little Magazine: Perspecta 12 and the Future of the Architectural Past,” Architectural Forum 131, no. 3, October, 74–75, 104.

1970

“Dall’oggetto alla Relazionalita: La Casa del Fascio di Terragni [From Object to Relationship: Terragni’s Casa del Fascio],” Casabella 344, January, 38–41 (Italian and English).

“Il Futuro della Tradizione: Une Ricera di Perspecta 12, Rivista Minore,” Casabella 345, February, 28–33.

“Notes on Conceptual Architecture: Towards a Definition,” Design Quarterly 78–79, 1–5, cover.

1971

“From Object to Relationship II: Giuseppe Terragni, Casa del Fascio,” Perspecta 13–14, 36–75.

“A Review of Alison and Peter Smithson’s Ordinariness and Light,” Architectural Forum 133, May, 76–80.

“Meier’s Smith House: Letter to the Editor,” Architectural Design, August, 520.

“Notes on Conceptual Architecture: Towards a Definition,” Casabella 359–60, November/December, 48–58 (Italian and English).

Guest co-editor, Casabella: The City as Artifact 359–60, November/December (Italian and English).

1972

“Cardboard Architecture: House I” and “Cardboard Architecture: House II,” in Five Architects: Eisenman, Graves, Gwathmey, Hejduk, Meier, ed. Arthur Drexler (New York: Oxford University Press), 15–24.

“Robin Hood Gardens London E14 [abridged version of “From Golden Lane to Robin Hood Gardens; or If You Follow the Yellow Brick Road, It May Not Lead to Golders Green”],” Architectural Design 42, September, 557–73, 588–92.

1973

“From Golden Lane to Robin Hood Gardens; or If You Follow the Yellow Brick Road, It May Not Lead to Golders Green,” Oppositions 1, September, 27–56.

“Cardboard Architecture,” A+U 35, November, 185–89 (Japanese and English).

“Castelli di Carte: Due Opere di Peter Eisenman,” Casabella 374, 17–31 (Italian and English, translation of “Houses of Cards”).

“Notes on Conceptual Architecture II A,” Environmental Design Research Association 2, 319–22.

1974

“Conceptual Architecture II: Double Deep Structure I,” A+U 39, March, 83–88, cover (Japanese and English).

“Architettura Concettuale: Dal Livello Percettivo della Forma ai Suoi Significati Nascoti,” Casabella 386, February, 25–27 (Italian and English).

“House III: To Adolph Loos and Bertolt Brecht,” Progressive Architecture, May, 92.

“Real and English: Destruction of the Box. I,” Oppositions 4, 5–34.

1975

“Roosevelt Island Competition,” Controspazio 4, December, 30–31.

“White and Gray: Eleven Modern American Architects,” A+U 52, April, 25–180 (Japanese, English summary 2–4).

Co-guest editor with Robert A. M. Stern, “White and Gray Eleven Modern American Architects,” A+U 52, April, 25–180 (Japanese, English summary 2–4).

1976

“Post-Functionalism,” Oppositions 6, Fall, i–iii (editorial).

1977

“Behind the Mirror: On the Writings of Philip Johnson,” Oppositions 10, Fall, 1–13.

“Semiotica e Architettura (la Casa del Fascio),” Casabella 429, October, 25 (Italian and English).

“House VI,” Progressive Architecture, June, 57–59, cover.

1978

“Cinque Pezzi Facili: Frammenti Dialettici verso la Decomposizione e la Reintegrazione del Suburbio,” in Europa/America, ed. Franco Raggi (Venice: La Biennale di Venizia), 112–19 (Italian).

“The Graves of Modernism,” Oppositions 12, Spring, 36–41.

“Genuinamente Ingles: La Destruccion de la Caja,” Arquitectura, no. 211, March/April, 54–71 (Spanish).

“Post-Functionalism,” Arquitecturas/Bis 22, 6–12 (Spanish).

1979

“Preface” and “The House of the Dead as the City of Survival,” introduction to Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies Catalogue 2: Aldo Rossi in America: 1976–1979 (New York: Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies), 1, 4–15.

“Introduction,” in Philip Johnson, Writings (New York: Oxford University Press), 10–25.

1980

“Aspects of Modernism: Maison Dom-ino and the Self-Referential Sign,” Oppositions 15/16, Winter/ Spring, 119–28.

“Beyond the Modern Movement,” Harvard Architecture Review 1, Spring, 190–217.

“House El Even Odd (I and II),” in Houses for Sale, ed. B. J. Archer (New York: Rizzoli International), 172–76.

“House VI: The Frank Residence,” GA Document Special Issue: 1970–1980, 172–73 (Japanese and English).

“Preface” and “In My Father’s House Are Many Mansions,” in Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies Catalogue 12: John Hejduk: Seven Houses (New York: Rizzoli International), 1–2, 8–20.

“Sandboxes: House 11a,” A+U Special Issue: Peter Eisenman 112, Tokyo: January, 223–27, cover (Japanese and English).

“Second Reading,” Oppositions 19/20, Winter/Spring, 141.

“Stadium Ghosts,” New York Times, 2 April, op/ed page.

“Three Texts for Venice,” Domus 611, November, 9–11, cover (Italian and English).

“Transformations, Decompositions and Critiques: House X,” A+U Special Issue: Peter Eisenman 112, January, 14–151, cover (Japanese and English).

1981

“Preface,” “House II,” “House X,” and “Cannaregio,” in Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies Catalogue 2: Idea as Model (New York: Rizzoli International), 1, 34–35, 82–83, 120.

“House X: Transformations, Decompositions and Critiques,” Artforum, March, 48–51.

1982

House X (New York: Rizzoli International).

“The Houses of Memory: The Texts of Analogy,” introduction to Aldo Rossi, The Architecture of the City (Cambridge: MIT Press), 3–12.

“Peter Eisenman,” Yale Seminars in Architecture 2, ed. Cesar Pelli (New Haven: Yale University), 49–87.

“Le Rappresentazioni del Dubbio: Nel Segno del Segno [The Representations of Doubt: At the Sign of the Sign],” Rassegna 9, March, 69–74 (Italian, English original unpaginated).

“Aspects du Modernism: La Maison Dom-ino ou le Signe Autoreferential,” Les Cahiers de la Recherche Architecturale 12, November, 58–65.

“Dall’Oggetto alla Relazionalitá: La Casa del Fascio di Terragni,” in L. Ferrario and D. Pastore, Giuseppe Terragni: La Casa del Fascio (Rome: Instituto Mides), 54–58.

1983

“The City of Artificial Excavation,” Architectural Design 53, January, 91–93.

“Contrasti sul concetto de armonia in architettura [Contrasting Concepts of Harmony in Architecture],” Lotus International 40, 60–68 (Italian and English).

“Fin d’Ou T Hou S,” in Follies: Architecture for the Late Twentieth Century Landscape (New York: Rizzoli International), 54–56.

“Representations of the Limit: Writing a ‘Not Architecture,’” in Daniel Libeskind, Chamberworks: Architectural Meditations on Themes from Heraclitus (London: Architectural Association), 6–8.

“Site: The Meaning of Place in Art and Architecture,” Design Quarterly 122, 4–34.

“Sports of Our Climate,” New York Times, 16 July, op/ed page.

“La Ciudad de la Excavacion Artificial,” Arquitecturas/Bis, December, 21–23 (Spanish).

Co-author with Jaquelin Robertson, “Koch/Friedrichstrasse Block 5,” in Architecture in Progress, ed. Frank Russell, Architectural Design Profile, 91–93.

1984

“The Futility of Objects,” Harvard Architecture Review 3, Winter, 65–82, cover.

“La Futilidad de los Objectos” and “La Ciudad de la Excavacion Artificial,” Arquitectura, January/ February, 33–56 (Spanish).

“La futilitá degli oggetti: Decomposizione e processi di diffenziazone,” Lotus International 42, February, 63–75 (Italian and English).

“El Fin de lo Classico: El Fin del Comienzo, el Fin del Fin,” Arquitecturas/Bis, March, 29–37 (Spanish).

“Yale Seminars in Architecture, Peter Eisenman,” A+U 166, July, 19–26 (Japanese).

“The End of the Classical: The End of the Beginning, the End of the End,” Perspecta 21, Summer, 154–72.

“Banff Transcripts,” Section A 2, no. 3/4, September, 20–26.

“Firehouse for Engine Company 223, Ladder Company 176, Brooklyn, New York,” Architectural Design 54, London: November/December, 14–15.

The Ohio State Center for the Visual Arts Competition (New York: Rizzoli International).

1985

Fin D’ou T Hou S (London: Architectural Association).

“Cite Un Seen II,” in Le Affinita Elettive, ed. Carlo Guenzi (Milan: Electa), 63–68 (Italian and English. Published in conjunction with the exhibit Elective Affinities held at the Milan Triennale).

“The OSU Center for the Visual Arts” and “Fin d’Ou T Hou S,” Architectural Design 55, January/ February, 44–55.

“Chamber Work par Daniel Libeskind,” Techniques et Architecture 358, February/March, 62–67 (French).

1986

Moving Arrows, Eros, and Other Errors: An Architecture of Absence (London: Architectural Association).

“The Beginning, the End, and the Beginning Again: Some Notes on an Idea of Scaling,” Newt Mitzvah: Contemporary Ideas for Light in Jewish Ritual, Jerusalem, 62.

“The City as Memory and Immanence,” Zone 1 (New York: Urzone), 440–41.

“The Beginning, the End, and the Beginning Again: Some Notes on an Idea of Scaling” and “Moving Arrows, Eros, and Other Errors: An Architecture of Absence,” SD, March, 6–7, 53–57 (Japanese).

“Metaphysics, Mystique, and Power: A Review of John Hejduk’s Mask of Medusa,” AA Files 12, Summer, 107.

“miMISes READING: does not mean A THING,” in Mies Reconsidered: His Career, Legacy, and Disciples, ed. John Zukowsky (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago/New York: Rizzoli Publications), 86–98.

“University Campus, Long Beach, California: The Museum Rediscovered,” Lotus International 50, 128–35 (Italian and English).

1987

Houses of Cards (New York: Oxford University Press, includes “Misreading Peter Eisenman”).

“Architecture and the Problem of the Rhetorical Figure,” A+U Special Issue: Eisenman Robertson Architects/ von Gerkan-Marg 202, July, 17–22, cover (Japanese and English).

“Moving Arrows, Eros and Other Errors,” The Culture of Fragments: Précis 6, Spring, 139–43.

“Architettura e figura retorica,” Eidos, no. 1, 12–19.

“Das Symbol,” in Das Neue Berlin (Berlin: Gebr. Mann Verlag), 86–90 (German).

“TEXt AS Zero Or: The Destruction of Narrative,” in Lars Lerup, Planned Assaults (Montreal: Centre Canadienne d’Architecture/Cambridge: MIT Press), 93–98.

“University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, California,” GA Document 18, April, 13–15.

“L’inizio, la fine e poi di nuovo l’mizio-alcune osservazioni sull’idea di scaling,” in La Cittá e la Forme, ed. Gabriella Belli and Franco Rella (Milan: Mazzotta), 93–98 (Italian).

“miMISes READING: does not mean A THING,” in Mies Van der Rohe: Vorbild una Vermachtnis (Frankfurt: Deutsches Architekturmuseum), 85–95 (German).

“Lecturas de MImESis: Malinterpretadas no significan NADA,” in Mies Van der Rohe: Su Architectura y Sus Discipulos (Madrid: La Direccion General para la Vivienda y Arquitectura), 92–104 (Spanish).

1988

“Laboratorios in Frankfurt,” Arquitectura 270, January/February, 80–91 (Spanish).

“Biology Center for the J. W. Goethe University of Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, 1987,” Assemblage 5, February, 29–50.

“Guggenheim Addition, a Statement by Peter Eisenman,” Oculus 50, no. 7, March, 2, 14.

“Architecture and the Return of Ornamentation,” A+U 211, April, 11–14 (Japanese).

“Architecture and the Crisis of Reality,” Architectonische Utopie 3, no. 10, June, 39–41.

“Blue Line Text,” Architectural Design 58, July/August, 6–9.

“The Authenticity of Difference: Architecture and the Crisis of Reality,” Center: A Journal for Architecture in America 4, 50–57.

“Como casas de naipes,” El Paseante 8, 96–109 (Spanish).

“En Terror Firma: In Trails of Grotextes,” Pratt Journal of Architecture, 111–21.

“Two Teachers: A Personal Reflection,” in The Architecture of Kallmann, McKinnell and Wood, ed. Alex Krieger (New York: Rizzoli), 95–97.

“Architecture as a Second Language: The Texts of Between,” Threshold 4, Spring, 71–75.

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