Eisenmanual systematically registers and maps the major theoretical and formal themes in architecture that architect Peter Eisenman has developed in his work over the past forty years. This compact and multilayered volume is a comprehensive handbook to his texts and projects and their simultaneous and overlapping development since his doctoral thesis, "The Formal Basis of Modern Architecture," written in 1963. Literally a printed "hypertext," the manual weaves a selection of 80 texts and 46 projects, both built and unbuilt, through a series of synoptic and conceptual maps, a cartography of...
Eisenmanual systematically registers and maps the major theoretical and formal themes in architecture that architect Peter Eisenman has developed in h...