resuscitated

[Max Reindhart Haus, Berlin]

• Captain Logos
  " ... In due course someone from DHL pads across the pile bearing laser prints of a 120m high vulva by the Spree. "There,' says Eisenman, 'that's not phallocentric!' 'No, no,' I murmur ... " (Moore R, blp_Apr93)

• blown up demon
  "... [Eisenman] has even aknowledged that his architecture is a form of therapy, where he works out personal demons in the guise of the universals. ... For most of us, other people's neuroses are tough enough to deal with one-to-one, never mind trying to confront them blown up to the size of a skyscraper." (Ghirardo D, pa_Nov94)

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[Columbus Convention Center]

• office bumph
  " ... the Columbus Convention Center talks of 'respecting the scale of the North Market and the Victorian Village' and 'a concern for pedestrian life.' Gordon Cullen seems more of an influence than Jacques Derrida." (Moore R, "Eisenman Plays the Center Forward" - blp_Apr93)
  • (from a dedicated backbencher ...)
    "Eisenman has become the socially approved version of samizdat in architecture, rather like the simulated subversiveness of cabaret jazz ..." (Vincent Pecora on Eisenman's Friends, Views pa_May95)

• visor
  "... those occasional coincidences in the generation of architectural motifs ...": DG Bank, Frankfurt am Main, Germany - Kohn Pedersen Fox; The First Bank Place complex - James Ingo Freed/Pei Cobb Freed & Partners; 1111 Brickel Avenue, Miami - Helmut Jahn; Mannheimer Lebensversicherung, Mannheim, Germany - Helmut Jahn (pa_Sep93)

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• id cubes
  
  1. "... In fact, Tschumi's design derives from Eisenman's 1978 project for Cannereggio, which in turn recalls Le Corbusier's 1965 project for the Venice Hospital. Working on a project which was already charged with previous memories allowed the designers to think of the place as another 'text', a palimpsest not just of its history, origins and past but of its immanence and future too. A place for absorption and figurative metamorphosis." (Renato Rizzi, Eisenman: Progetto per il parco 'La Villette', Parigi : 1986, dom681 Mar87)

  2. "In your March 1987 issue no 681, featuring a garden for the Parc de la Villette, designed by Peter Eisenman and Jacques Derrida, your writer, Renato Rizzi, who is assisting Peter Eisenman on this garden, claims that 'Tschumi's design derives from Eisenman's 1978 project for Cannaregio.'

     With all due respect to Mr. Rizzi, I would like to point out that this allegation is incorrect. The point grid of La Villette, which is only one of its elements, is directly issued from my own 'Joyce Garden,' based on James Joyce's 'Finnegan's Wake,' and structured on a point grid. The project was published in London in 1977.
     Yours sincerely
     Bernard Tschumi
     Paris, 27.4.87" (Letter to the Editor, dom686_Sep87)

• w
  1. [Two Libraries for Jussieu, Paris 1992 - Rem Koolhaas/OMA]
     (Ultimate hype: ArtForum 1994 cover)

  2. d e m o
     "the superlative dimostrazione of the fashionable concept of the formless body"
     (Peter Eisenman's "equally malicious ... elaborate praise of Zaera-Polo's Yokohama scheme, after the young architect had just argued that embracing formlessness was not an option for architects!") (archis_07.97)
     [Yokohama Terminal, Japan - Foreign Office Architecture]

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• sandwich
  1. "5 Minutes Later.
     In front of Welfare Palace Hotel, the raft of the constructivists collides with the raft of the Medusa: optimism vs. pessimism. The steel of the pool slices through the plastic of the sculpture like a knife through butter." (Rem Koolhaas, Delirious New York 1978)
     [The Story of the Pool, Welfare Palace Hotel, New York 1977 - Rem Koolhaas]

  2. "... Set into the hill it is to encompass all the Club's hedonistic activities. The new polished granite cliffs are erected to meet the top of the site. The architecture appears like a knife cutting through butter devastating all the traditional principles and establishing a new ones. ... The swimming pool element is suspended ... ..." (Zaha Hadid, Competition Report )
     [The Peak, Hong Kong 1983 - Zaha Hadid]

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• flag
  
  1. [Thousand Oaks Civic Center, California 1970 - Venturi & Rauch]

  2. [Australian Parliament House, Canberra, Australia 1981-1988 - Mitchell/Giurgola]

[Victoria and Richard Blades House, Santa Barbara CA]

• w vu of Snd
  "Mr and Mrs Blades had met a soul mate -- though one with his own esthetic agenda.
  ... of their search for an architectural house and Mr Mayne's search for ..." (Giovannini J, nyt_98.08.06)

"Through his father, Ozenfant met Auguste Perret, who in turn introduced him to the young Jeanneret. 'He'is a very curious bird,' Perret said, 'but he will interest you.' In his Memoirs, published in 1967, Ozenfant described, with a slight exaggeration, his influence on this curious Swiss bird, who had the profile of a crow (corbeau )."
(Jencks C. 1973 "LC and the Tragic View ...")

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