Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Corbo, Stefano

Titel

Formal Terrorism

Ist Teil von

• From Formalism to Weak Form: The Architecture and Philosophy of Peter Eisenman, 2014, p.23-37

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

United Kingdom: Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2014

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The whole notion of 'cardboard architecture' meant that the materiality of the work was important as an 'antimaterial' statement. The whole activity of the group was focused upon the comprehension of the syntactical mechanisms that regulate architecture. The colour white became the main feature of his houses, in which the functional programme was always the starting point for any design process. The official sounding board of Eisenman's activities was certainly the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies (IAUS), founded in 1967. Functionalism, for Eisenman, was no more than a late phase of humanism, rather than an alternative to it. Eisenman began to pay more attention to the instances of the subject, in order to review the traditional subject/object antinomy. Consequently, in his discourse, Eisenman replaced geometry, abstraction and self-referentiality with recourse to external factors that could contaminate architecture and force the architect to deal with them.