Ten canonical buildings 1950-2000
By: Peter Eisenman ; foreword by Stan Allen ; edited by Ariane Lourie
Contributors: Lourie, Ariane
Publisher: Rizzoli; Distributed to the U.S. trade by Random House
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9780847830480
Subjects: Composition, proportion; Philosophy; Architecture; Modern Architecture
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [289-299]) and index.
Table of contents: title: Profiles of text: Luigi Moretti, Casa "Il Girasole," 1947-50; title: The umbrella diagram: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Farnsworth House, 1946-51; title: Textual heresies: Le Corbusier, Palais des Congrès-Strasbourg, 1962-64; title: From plaid grid to diachronic space: Louis I. Kahn, Adler House and DeVore House, 1954-55; title: The nine-square diagram and its contradictions: Robert Venturi, Vanna Venturi House, 1959-64; title: Material inversions: James Stirling, Leicester Engineering Building, 1959-63; title: Texts of analogy: Aldo Rossi, Cemetery of San Cataldo, 1971-78; title: Strategies of the void: Rem Koolhaas, Jussieu Libraries, 1992-93; title: The deconstruction of the axis: Daniel Libeskind, Jewish Museum, 1989-99; title: The soft umbrella diagram: Frank O. Gehry, Peter B. Lewis Building, 1997-2002.