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List of illustrations

  • ABCD 9
  • Fountain
  • Initial structure of taxomony
  • Casa del Fascio, plan
  • Palazzo Thiene, plan
  • Fvilla Foscari (La Malcontenta), plan
  • Prime Course
  • House I, Mr. and Mrs. Bernard M. Barenholtz, transformational drawings
  • House II, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Falk, transformational drawings
  • Cluster City, The Golden Land Idea in the countryside
  • Golden Lane Housing Project, Coventry England
  • Robin Hood Gardens
  • Robin Hood Gardens
  • Robin Hood Gardens
  • Robin Hood Gardens
  • Robin Hood Gardens
  • Robin Hood Gardens
  • Robin Hood Gardens
  • Robin Hood Gardens
  • Bristol Warehouse, roof plan
  • I am a monument, sketch
  • Maison Dom-ino; various diagrams
  • Villa Stein, Garches, France
  • Leicester University Engineering Building
  • Leicester University Engineering Building
  • Leicester University Engineering Building
  • Leicester University Engineering Building
  • Leicester University Engineering Building, axonometric drawing
  • Leicester University Engineering Building, perspective drawing
  • Community Center, Liverpool University School of Architecture, Thesis (top); Sheffield University competition, Façade (bottom)
  • Leicester University Engineering Building, roof plan of an early scheme (left); axonometric drawing showing volumetric development of the skylights (right)
  • Leicester University Engineering Building
  • Leicester University Engineering Building
  • Leicester University Engineering Building
  • Leicester University Engineering Building
  • Salvation Army Building
  • Villa Savoye, Poissy France
  • Leicester University Engineering Building
  • Leicester University Engineering Building
  • Leicester University Engineering Building
  • Saynatsalo Town Hall, Saynatsalo, Finland
  • Leicester University Engineering Building
  • Leicester University Engineering Building
  • Leicester University Engineering Building
  • Workers' Club
  • Leicester University Engineering Building
  • Kline Biology Tower
  • Bank, Dresden, Germany
  • Glass House
  • Pennzoil Place
  • Maison Dom-ino
  • Villa Foscari (La Malcontenta), plan
  • Maison Dom-ino
  • St. Peter's, early plan
  • Villa Pisani alla Rocca, plan
  • Maison Dom-ino
  • Maison Dom-ino
  • Texas Houses (top to bottom): House 1. Axonometric; House 1. Axonometric; House 1. Site Axonometric; House 1. Plan
  • Texas Houses (top to bottom): House 1. Site Section; House 1. Axonometric; House 2. Plan; House 2. Axonometric
  • Texas Houses (top to bottom): House 3. Axonometric; House 3. Plan; House 3. Axonometric; House 5. Site Axonometric
  • Texas Houses (top to bottom): House 5. Axonometric; House 5. Axonometric; House 5. Plan; House 1. Axonometric
  • Texas Houses (top to bottom): House 2. Axonometric; House 3. Axonometric; House 5. Site Axonometric; House 5. Elevation
  • Texas Houses (top to bottom): House 4. Site Plan; House 6. Site Plan; House 6. Plan; House 6. Façade
  • Texas Houses (top to bottom): House 6. Axonometric; House 4. Plan; House 6. Plan; House 4. Axonometric
  • Texas Houses (top to bottom): House 6. First Floor Plan; House 6. Second Floor Plan
  • Texas Houses (top to bottom): House 7. Elevation; House 7. Elevation; House 7. Basement Plan; House 7. Third Floor Plan
  • Horizontal section of the Mausoleum of Hadrian
  • Labyrinth design
  • Palazzo Minelli, front elevation
  • Palazzo Surian
  • Palazzo Surian
  • Palazzo Foscarini ai Carmini
  • Palazzo Foscarini ai Carmini
  • Palazzo Strozzi, Florence
  • Fabrica Fino, Bergamo
  • Fabrica Fino, Bergamo
  • Fabrica Fino, Bergamo
  • Giulani Frigerio apartment block, frontal view
  • Giulani Frigerio apartment block, corner view
  • Giulani Frigerio apartment block, Como, Italy
  • Giulani Frigerio apartment block, Como, Italy
  • Giulani Frigerio apartment block, Como, Italy
  • Concrete Country House, model
  • Brick Country House project, perspective and plan
  • Rhythm of a Russian Dance
  • Concrete Country House, perspective drawing
  • German Pavilion, Barcelona, second preliminary scheme
  • German Pavilion, Barcelona, final plan
  • Living room, Tugendhat House, Brno
  • Hubbe House, Magdeburg, Germany, plan
  • Hubbe House, Magdeburg, Germany, perspective of living room and terrace
  • House III, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Miller
  • House I, Mr. and Mrs. Bernard M. Barenholtz
  • House II, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Falk
  • House IV, model
  • House VI, Suzanne and Richard Frank
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No book is possible without all of those people who toil ceaselessly behind the scenes. This book in particular, written over many years in many different contexts, has more of such people than I can today remember. Therefore I will mention only a few who for the recent past worked to make disparate essays into a presentable context.
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Many critics complain that my work reflects two cultural problems: one, an unregenerate internalized formalism; and two, the proliferation of models from outside of architecture. They either argue that in no way should an internal theory of form or of formalism be used as a possible explanation of architecture, or they argue that architecture should rely...
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Description: Eisenman Inside Out: Selected Writings, 1963–1988
Two contemporary British architectural critics have put forward ideas toward a theory of modern architecture. In doing so they have between them raised the whole issue of form in architecture and furnished the basis for carrying the discussion of it a stage further.
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An examination of recent developments in architecture, its present commitment to a social and technological polemic notwithstanding, would reveal that aspects of painting and sculpture, especially in the domain of what is loosely called...
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“House I” and “House II” were first drafted in November 1969 and April 1970, respectively. They were redrafted and necessarily condensed for later publication.
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The making of architecture can be said to be a continuing dialectic between ideas and forms. Certain ideas and metaphors have the power to suggest buildings. Equally, certain buildings, by virtue of their form, can imply a use and even suggest a way of life. Each is no more or no less architecture. Both are rare. Few ideas have been...
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Throughout the history of architecture it has been possible to identify certain contemporary cultural phenomena through the examination of individual buildings. From the many building campaigns of Notre Dame in Paris to Le Corbusier’s Villa Savoye at Poissy, there are examples of buildings with a level of concern for...
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The critical establishment within architecture has told us that we have entered the era of “post-modernism.” The tone with which this news is delivered is invariably one of relief, similar to that which accompanies the advice that one is no longer an adolescent. Two indices of this supposed changing are the quite different...
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Philip Johnson may be the last architect of the Enlightenment.This text was originally written as an introduction to the volume by Philip Johnson...
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The responsibility that Colin Rowe unquestionably shares for the revival of interest in Le Corbusier in the early 1960’s in America finds a curious counter-thesis in Rowe’s own skeptical repudiation of the polemics and principles of the Modern Movement in his 1972 introduction to the book Five...
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It can be argued that all changes in architecture can in some manner be traced to changes in culture. Certainly, the most tangible changes in architecture have been brought about by advancements in technology...
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The structure of any discipline may be defined at two levels: first, those aspects of it which generally distinguish it from other disciplines; second, those which reveal it, in itself, to be that discipline and no other. Thus, although words might serve to distinguish prose and poetry from, say, music or sculpture, their use does...
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The image on the cover of the fourth Italian edition of Aldo Rossi’s L’Architettura della città summarizes in condensed form not only the ambivalent nature of Rossi’s architectural work...
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The invention of perspective as a system of representation in the fifteenth century may have been ultimately a more decisive issue in architecture than it was in painting...
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Architecture from the fifteenth century to the present has been under the influence of three “fictions.” Notwithstanding the apparent...
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History is not continuous.This should be compared to Franco Rella’s opening sentence in the introduction to Il Dispositivo Foucault (Cluva Libreria Editrice, 1977), 7. He uses history as discontinuous (la storia e discontinuita). The...
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Architecture has traditionally been thought of as producing an object with meaning. Recently this meaning has been confused with a different idea, that of an architectural text. The presumption is that simply because something has meaning, the now fashionable term “text” can be applied to it. A text, however, may be...
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Sigmund Freud, in an unintended cultural repression, assumes later in the same text that “if we want to represent historical sequence in spatial terms we can only do it by juxtaposition in space...
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Dislocation and the Metaphysic of ArchitectureIn the present context, misreading will take on a threefold meaning. First, it acknowledges the impossibility of reading into a text what was intended by the author, or more precisely the impossibility for an author to be able to correctly read or reread his own work....
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With the influx of non-native English-speaking students to American colleges and universities, it is now possible to see college course offerings entitled “English as a Second Language...
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This text is an outline for a longer text “The Edge of Between.” Each line therefore should be conceived of as a page of text.
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