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Title: Blurred Zones: Investigations of the Interstitial: Eisenman Architects 1988-1998 by Andrew E. Benjamin, Cynthia Davidson, Peter Eisenman, Luis Fernandez-Galiano, K. Michael Hays, Fredric Jameson, Franco Purini, John Rajchman ISBN: 1-58093-049-2 Publisher: The Monacelli Press Pub. Date: June, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $65.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.43 (7 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Vapid and More Vapid
Comment: I am continually surprised by the inane writing that architects get away with. As a graduate student (philosophy major) switching to architecture, I have to read some of this rubbish for my course. Wake Up! Look arounf you. This is not theory or investigation. It is the sort of mindless crap that makes our cities so unlivable. For all his writing about disjunction, disturbing and transgression, I notice Eisenman lives in a nice homey traditional apartment building on 10th Street. Who is he kidding? YOU, - (if you willingly switch off your brain and buy into this balderdash.) Get sense. Read Louis Kahn, or anyone who genuinely understands architecture and people. This is all garbage.
Rating: 1
Summary: Predictable Blather
Comment: From the pretentious title to the closing endpaper this book is jammed with the now hackneyed archi-speak that Eisenman et al impress themselves with. But mostly its the same old abstract blather. Whatever happened to the good-old days when young architects sought to be socially and artistically responsible, and were willing to learn how to craft a building through an understanding of construction and detail? Pied Piper Eisenman (via Benjamin and the other gooks) shows there is another, cruder, more ignorant path that can be taken much more easily. Take it at your peril.
Rating: 1
Summary: Incoherent and Rambling
Comment: OK, so it's at last fashionable to laugh at Eisenman and to see him for the amateur-hour theorist he really is. But if you have had any lingering doubts about the worthlessness of his writings, try absorbing this pompous and meaningless volume. Eisenman's usual tactic is to overlay a verbal or diagrammatic complexity on his subject matter; real or more pragmatic issues are ignored in favor of highly improbable theoretical assumptions. Eisenman indulges himself with meandering arguments that evidently seem impressive to him, but do not withstand critical analysis of any worthwhile sort. That there is a complete lack of clarity in Eisenman's thinking has always been the case. The "Blurred" of the title says it all. Don't be taken in by the con.
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Title: Morphosis by Thom Mayne ISBN: 071484070X Publisher: Phaidon Press Inc. Pub. Date: December, 2002 List Price(USD): $75.00 |
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Title: Giuseppe Terragni: Transformations, Decompositions, Critiques by Peter Eisenman, Giuseppe Terragni, Manfredo Tafuri ISBN: 1885254962 Publisher: The Monacelli Press Pub. Date: August, 2003 List Price(USD): $60.00 |
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Title: INDEX Architecture : A Columbia Architecture Book by Bernard Tschumi, Matthew Berman ISBN: 0262700956 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Peter Eisenman : Diagram Diaries by Peter Eisenman ISBN: 0789302640 Publisher: Universe Books Pub. Date: 15 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Intricacy by Greg Lynn, Claudia Gould, Tom Friedman ISBN: 0884541029 Publisher: Univ Pennsylvania Inst of Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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