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TitleAlteka Tower, drawings

Creator nameEisenman Architects

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator roleArchitect

Creation date1991

Object typeArchitecture

LocationTokyo

SubjectsEisenman ArchitectsOffice buildings--Japan--20th centuryModern movement (Architecture)--20th century

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6. Vision’s Unfolding: Architecture in the Age of Electronic Media

Peter Eisenman

Written into the Void: Selected Writings, 1990–2004

During the fifty years since the Second World War, a paradigm shift has taken place that should have profoundly affected architecture: This was the shift from the mechanical paradigm to the electronic one. This change can be simply understood by comparing the impact of the role of the human subject on such primary modes of...

Author

Peter Eisenman

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.34-41

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-31871&redirecttoanchor=107978

Chapter subject tags:Architectural theory--20th century

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