It’s been a while since our New York collection came out, drawing inspiration from the different types of architecture in the city that never sleeps. For example, some of the city’s greats in architecture have been involved in its development for years, including Peter Eisenmann .
Who are you, Peter?
Peter Eisenmann born on the 11th august 1932 to Newark in the suburbs of New York . Graduated in architecture from Cornell University and Columbia, then Cambridge University , he founded the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies » in New York in 1967 . He also subsequently founded his architectural agency there in 1980.
Since this opening, Eisenmann has developed more than a hundred projects of completely diverse natures . At the same time, he is also editor-in-chief of the journal Oppositions , and, publishes numerous essays , articles as well as books .
Today he is a university professor at Yale. and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Letters . He is also a member of the New York Five , a group of leading New York architects .
The movement Eisemann
Peter Eisenmann becomes the major figure of the deconstructivism movement . This movement, exclusively architectural, stems from the literary movement of " deconstruction " as well as from the movement of Russian Constructivism . A contemporary movement, it radically breaks with history, traditions and industrial rationalism .
Philosophy is at the very heart of this movement, particularly the ideas of fragmentation and negative polarity . Deconstruction attempts to invent the impossible, it is a space that opens to space , but also to reflections, to transformations.
The works of Peter Eisenmann
Originally, as we said previously, out of more than a hundred projects , some were awarded prizes while others were not. One of the best known is the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe (also called the Holocaust Memorial ) , located in the center of Berlin . The Memorial was conceived as a 19,073 m2 "field", covered with 2,711 concrete steles , producing an atmosphere of unease and confusion , symbolic of the atrocities of war.
He is also the founder of the City of Culture of Galicia , located in Santiago de Compostela . But also from the Aronoff Center in Cincinnati , from Greater Columbus Convention Center , Staten Island Museum , Jardin des Pas Perdus …