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In the late 1980s, the New York-based office Eisenman Architects, led by architect and educator Peter Eisenman, shifted from an investigation of "artificial excavations" as an architectural tool to a conscious pursuit of a concept he called "blurring." Blurring is not a visual effect but rather deals with affect, that is, a strategy for exploring a mind/body relationship in architecture that displaces the conventional or expected experience of space. Blurring has many different definitions -- the between, the interstitial -- and takes many different forms in the work. Blurred Zones: Investigations of the Interstitial presents seventeen design projects, both built and unbuilt, and twelve essays that attempt to illuminate and illustrate the conceptual activity of blurring. The work from this period begins in 1988, with a project for the Guardiola House in Cadiz, Spain, and continues until 1998, with the Memorial for the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin. Also shown in this monograph, with photographs and Eisenman's signature drawings, are the Aronoff Center for Design and Art at the University of Cincinnati and the Greater Columbus Convention Center, both in Ohio; the Nunotani Headquarters Building in Tokyo; the Max Reinhardt Haus in Berlin; and the entry for the Church for the Year 2000 competition in Rome. Complementing the design projects are texts by critics: philosopher Andrew Benjamin, ANY magazine editor Cynthia Davidson, teacher and editor Luis Fernández-Galiano, architectural historian K. Michael Hays, literary critic Fredric Jameson, architect and teacher Franco Purini, and philosopher John Rajchman. Eisenman himself has written a series of essays on blurring, the interstitial, and undecidability, bringing together the preoccupations of his two roles: architect and theoretician.

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• Blurred Zones(p. 5)
• Guardiola House Cadiz, Spain(p. 10)
• Classicism Lost(p. 30)
• Aronoff Center for Design and Art Cincinnati, Ohio(p. 32)
• Aronoff and Ideology(p. 50)
• Milan Triennale Milan, Italy(p. 70)
• Koizumi Sangyo Office Building Tokyo, Japan(p. 76)
• Processes of the Interstitial(p. 94)
• Greater Columbus Convention Center Columbus, Ohio(p. 102)
• Banyoles Olympic Hotel Banyoles, Spain(p. 122)
• Folding in Time: The Singularity of Rebstock Peter Eisenman(p. 130)
• Rebstockpark Master Plan Frankfurt, Germany(p. 134)
• Perplications: On the Space and Time of Rebstockpark(p. 150)
• Nunotani Headquarters Building Tokyo, Japan(p. 162)
• A Game of Eisenman Seeks(p. 176)
• Emory University Center for the Arts Atlanta, Georgia(p. 180)
• Whose M Emory?(p. 202)
• Max Reinhardt Haus Berlin, Germany(p. 208)
• Conservatory and Contemporary Arts Center Tours, France(p. 222)
• Klingelhofer-Dreieck Housing Berlin, Germany(p. 236)
• Nordliches Derendorf Master Plan Dusseldorf, Germany(p. 244)
• Zones of Undecidability I(p. 258)
• Church for the Year 2000 Rome, Italy(p. 262)
• PaperArt Installation Duren, Germany(p. 280)
• Zones of Undecidability II(p. 286)
• Bibliotheque de L'Ihuei Geneva, Switzerland(p. 290)
• Opening the Interstitial: Eisenman's Space of Difference(p. 306)
• Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe Berlin, Germany(p. 312)
• Germania Remember: Berlin's Memorial or Eisenman's Danteum?(p. 332)

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

Peter Eisenman is principal of Eisenman Architects in New York, Louis I. Kahn Professor of Architecture at Yale University; the author of a great number of books and articles; and the subject of many others