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WEXNER CENTERPETER EISENMAN

KATARINA CASTELLA

 JOSÉ MED

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PETER EISENMAN

BORN ON AUGUST 11, 1932, IN NEWARK, NEW JERSEY

CORNELL UNIVERSITY, COLUMBIA,CAMBRIDGE AND SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY.

MEMBER O T!E NEW YORK IVE

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WEXNER CENTER OR T!E ARTS

ARC!ITECTS" PETER EISENMAN

LOCATION" 1871 NORTH HIGH STREET, OHIO STATE

RIC!ARD TROTT" LOCAL ARCHITECT

LAURIE OLIN" LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT

CONSTRUCTION SYSTEM" STEEL, CONCRETE AND GLASS

AREA" 0.0 FT2

PROJECT YEAR" 1989

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RUNNING T!ROUG! T!E CORE O T!EBUILDING IS T!E WEXNER CENTER#S MOSTRECOGNI$ABLE EATURE" A %&'(OOT LONG)SCAOLDING* STRUCTURE T!AT EXTRUDES

 T!E PLANAR GRID SYSTEMS INTO A T!REE(DIMENSIONAL MATRIX. EXPOSED ANDPARTIALLY UNENCLOSED, IT IS MEANT TOLOOK DELIBERATELY INCOMPLETE,REPUDIATING PRECONCEPTIONS O SOLIDAND VOID AS IXED PROPERTIES OARC!ITECTURE

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ALSO PROMINENT ON T!E MUSEUM ARE A SET O RED

BRICK TURRETS T!AT DRAMATICALLY CLAS! WIT! T!E!YPER(MODERN AEST!ETIC O T!ESCAOLDING. T!EY ARE ALLUSIONS TO A MEDIEVAL(STYLE ARMORY T!AT WAS BULLDO$ED TO MAKE ROOMOR T!E MUSEUM, AN EERIE TRIBUTE TOCONSTRUCTION#S DESTRUCTIVE SIDE. MOREMEANINGULLY OR T!E ARC!ITECTURE, T!EY ARERAGMENTED ELEMENTS O !ISTORICITY, SPLIT ANDCARVED APART IN A WAY T!AT RENOUNCES T!E

IMPORTANCE O PRECEDENT AR MORE T!AN !ONORSIT.

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+NOW W!EN I DID A MUSEUM OR T!E WEXNER CENTER IN CO

O!IO, I SAID, WE !AVE TO EX!IBIT ART, BUT DO WE !AVE TO EX! T!E WAY !AS BEEN TRADITIONALLY EX!IBITED, T!AT IS, AGNEUTRAL BACKGROUND- BECAUSE, I SAID, YOU KNOW, ART !ASBEEN CRITICAL O LIE, T!AT IS W!AT GAVE ART ITS POTENCY, ITSAND ARC!ITECTURE S!OULD SERVE ART, IN OT!ER WORDBACKGROUND OR ART- ABSOLUTELY NOT, I SAID, ARC!S!OULD C!ALLENGE ART AND T!IS NOTION T!AT IT S!OU

BACKGROUND.+PETER EISENMAN. ROM PETER NOEVER, ED. ARC!ITECTURE IN TRANSITION

DECONSTRUCTION AND NEW MODE

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IN T!E WORDS O ANDREW BALLANTYNE, +BY SOME SCALE O VAWAS ACTUALLY EN!ANCING T!E REPUTATION O !IS BUILDING BYIT BE KNOWN T!AT IT WAS !OSTILE TO !UMANITY.*

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)PETER EISENMAN, %, W!O PRACTICES IN NEW YORK, !AS MADE CAREER OUT O TRYING TO S!IT ARC!ITECTURE OUT O T!E REA T!E PRACTICAL AND INTO T!E REALM O T!E T!EORETICAL/ !E PDOGMA WIT! T!E SAME JOYUL DETERMINATION WIT! W!IC! !ISAND INTELLECTUAL SPARRING PARTNER P!ILIP JO!NSON PURSUES!ISTORICAL CRIBBING. TO MR. EISENMAN, ARC!ITECTURE IS LESS MOLDING O SPACE TO SOLVE A PROBLEM T!AN IT IS T!E CONCRE

REALI$ATION O A T!EORETICAL IDEA.* PAUL GNEW