It has been said that Peter Eisenman considers architecture a form of shock therapy; whatever his intent, Peter Eisenman has indeed created one of the most controversial bodies of work of any contemporary American architect. Eisenman's architecture, along with the complex, genre-straddling theories upon which it is built, is active and polemical, and his buildings--whether executed or not--are ingenious essays on the way humans and inert materials occupy and control space. Eisenman combines a theoretical background and a remarkable academic pedigree with a bold, uncompromising design sensibility that places him along the country's most revered architects. Diagram Diaries is an unprecedented illustrated chronicle that showcases Eisenman's work to date from his earliest house designs to the heralded Wexner Center in Columbus, Ohio, through current commissions such as the Memorial for the Victims of the Holocaust in Vienna. This volume is more than a straightforward survey of the architect's work, however; it is by its very nature an engaging exploration of the process of design. Essays and detailed descriptions are built along a central axis tracing Eisenman's career. Project profiles are organized according to their generating motif: the inside of architecture, or projects generated by the internal forces of shapes and forms; and the outside of architecture, projects governed by external forces such as site and scientific process. Through Eisenman's own essays and through extensive illustration, readers come to understand Eisenman's diagram-based approach to design whereby sites and structures can be manipulated in diagram form. Diagram Diaries offers readers a succinct, totally up-to-date exposition of Peter Eisenman's design philosophy and a meticulously illustrated presentation of this architect's groundbreaking contributions to twentieth-century American design.
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15 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Eisenman's office sketchbook?,
By Bluestream (in my world) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Peter Eisenman: Diagram Diaries (Universe Architecture Series) (Paperback)
This volume consist 80% of computer generated drawings. Most of the 'drawings' or 'diagrams' are 3-d drawings with lines everywhere (even back lines that should be hidden) which makes them incomprehensible. They look just um,... messy & black! Maybe just for the look of "Complexity"? Well, can't learn much from them! Maybe architects like to collect these for collection sake. A lot of the diagrams are not accompanied by any explainations, which make them even more incomprehensible. This book includes a few essays by Eisenman at the front.
6 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
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Small book, big words.,
By Chris (New York, NY) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Peter Eisenman: Diagram Diaries (Universe Architecture Series) (Paperback)
This book is a great resource for those who want to get at what Mr. Eisenman is all about. It is a surprisingly straightforward account of what he has been up to for the past thirty years or more(Straightforward for Eisenman, at any rate). The book does require careful scrutiny, just looking at the pictures will get you nowhere.
5 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
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Thin & Superficial,
By A Customer
This review is from: Peter Eisenman: Diagram Diaries (Universe Architecture Series) (Paperback)
The title says it best. This is a series of diagrams which attempt to throw light on Eisenman's mostly superficial design ideas. Like much of his work, Eisenman fails to grasp intelligent spatial concepts, preferring instead the easy road of 2-dimensional graphic diagrams so lacking in any really meaningful or intuitive qualities that one onders whether these illustrations were intended for the design of a computer chipset or as spaces for human occupancy. Anyone who has seen (suffered?) the Wexner Center or the Columbus Convention Center will know that Eisenman is not capable of making good buildings. They have the thin, diagrammatic qualities of a full-size cardboard mock-up, not the substantive place-making associated with real architectural projects. Any casual walk around the city with your eyes open will be more instructive about the practice of architecture than reading a single page of this silly tome. Give this one a wide berth.
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