Peter Eisenman: A Selective Bibliography

Compiled by Aileen Smith, May 2010

This bibliography consists of a selective list of books and articles relating to

Peter Eisenman. Those books held within the AA Library are indicated with a shelfmark.

Books (Alphabetically by title)

Anybody / edited by Cynthia C Davidson Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1997

ISBN 0262540886 (includes contributions by Peter Eisenman and others)
AA SHELFMARK: 72.01.036 ANY

Anyhow / edited by Cynthia C Davidson Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1998

ISBN 0262540959 (includes contributions by Peter Eisenman and others)
AA SHELFMARK: 72.01.036 ANY

Anymore / edited by Cynthia C Davidson Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2000

ISBN 0262541106 (includes contributions by Peter Eisenman)
AA SHELFMARK: 72.01.036 ANY

Anyone / edited by Cynthia C Davidson Cambridge, Mass. MIT Press, 1991

ISBN 0847855929 (includes contributions by Peter Eisenman)
AA SHELFMARK: 72.01.036 ANY

Anyplace / edited by Cynthia C Davidson Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1995

ISBN 0262540789
AA SHELFMARK: 72.01.036 ANY

Anything / edited by Cynthia C Davidson Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2001

ISBN 0262541300 (includes contributions by Peter Eisenman)
AA SHELFMARK: 72.01.036 ANY

Anytime / edited by Cynthia C Davidson Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1999

ISBN 0262541025 (includes contributions by Peter Eisenman)
AA SHELFMARK: 72.01.036 ANY

Anyway / edited by Cynthia Davidson New York: Rizzoli, 1994

ISBN 0847817660 (includes contributions by Pete Eisenman)
AA SHELFMARK: 72.01.036 ANY
Anywhere / edited by Cynthia C Davidson New York: Rizzoli, 1992
ISBN 0847816176 (includes contributions by Peter Eisenman)
AA SHELFMARK: 72.01.036 ANY

Anywise / edited by Cynthia C Davidson Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1996

ISBN 0262540827 (includes contributions by Peter Eisenman)
AA SHELFMARK: 72.01.036 ANY

Architecture from the outside: essays on virtual and real space / Elizabeth Grosz;
foreword by Peter Eisenman Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2001
ISBN 0262571498
AA SHELFMARK: 72.01.036 GRO

Architecture in transition: between deconstruction and new modernism / edited

by Peter Noever; contributions by Peter Eisenman and others Munich: Prestel,
1991 ISBN 3791311360
AA SHELFMARK: 72.036 NOE

Architecture theory since 1968 / edited by K Michael Hays

Cambridge, Mass.:MIT Press, 1998 ISBN 0262082616 (includes
writings/projects by Peter Eisenman)
AA SHELFMARK: 72.01.036 HAY

Architectures experimentales 1990-2000: collection au FRAC Centre / Marie-Ange

Brayer Orleans: Hyx, 2003 ISBN 2910385302 (includes work by Peter
Eisenman)
AA SHELFMARK: 72.036 BRA

Autonomy and ideology: positioning an avant-garde in America / Columbia

University. Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
New York: Monacelli Press, 1997 (with contribution by Peter Eisenman)
ISBN 9781885254597
AA SHELFMARK: 72.036 SOM

Blurred zones: investigations of the interstitial: Eisenman Architects 1988-1998,

with essays by Andrew Benjamin et al New York: Monacelli, 2002
ISBN 1580930492
AA SHELFMARK: 72.036(73):92EIS BLU

Changing of the avant-garde: visionary architectural drawings from the Howard

Gilman Collection / Terence Riley New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2002
ISBN 0870700049 (includes work by Peter Eisenman)
AA SHELFMARK: 72.036:742 CHA
Charter of Zurich: Eisenman, De Kerckhove, Saggio / Furio Barzon; preface by
Gerhard Schmitt Basel: Birkhauser, 2003 ISBN 3764367350
AA SHELFMARK: 518.5:72.01.036 BAR

Chora L works: Jacques Derrida and Peter Eisenman New York: Monacelli
Press, 1997
AA SHELFMARK: 711.092(44P) KIP

Cities of artificial excavation: the work of Peter Eisenman 1978-1988/ edited and
with an introduction by Jean-Francois Bedard New York/ Montreal: Rizzoli /
CCA, 1994 ISBN 0847817601
AA SHELFMARK: 72.01.036:92EIS BED

CodeX: the city of culture of Galicia / Eisenman Architects / edited by Cynthia

Davidson New York: Monacelli, 2005
ISBN 1580931383
AA SHELFMARK: 727.7.036(46S):92EIS EIS

Crisis of the object: the architecture of theatricality / Gevork Hartoonian

(includes ‘Peter Eisenman: in search of degree zero architecture’) London:
Routledge, 2006 ISBN 9780415385473
AA SHELFMARK: 72.01.036 HAR

Daniel Libeskind: chamber works: architectural meditations on themes from

Heraclitus / Architectural Association London: AA, 1983 (includes
contribution by Peter Eisenman)
AA SHELFMARK: 72.036(73):92L ARC

Deconstructivist architecture / Philip Johnson and Mark Wigley

New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1988 ISBN 08707028X
AA SHELFMARK: 72.01.036 JOH

Diagram Diaries / Peter Eisenman London: Thames and Hudson, 1999

ISBN 0500281289
AA SHELFMARK: 72.036(73):92EIS EIS

Digital Eisenman: an office of the electronic era / Luca Galofaro Basel:

Birkhauser, 1999 ISBN 3764360941
AA SHELFMARK: 518.5:72.03:92EIS GAL

Eisenman inside out: selected writings / Peter Eisenman New Haven/London:

Yale UP, 2004 ISBN 0300090080
AA SHELFMARK: 72.01.036:92EIS EIS
Eisenman / Krier: two ideologies: a conference at the Yale School of Architecture
/ edited by Cynthia Davidson New York: Monacelli, 2004 ISBN 1580931391
AA SHELFMARK: 72.01.036:92EIS DAV

Eleven authors in search of a building: The Arnoff Center for Design and Art at
the University of Cincinnati / Peter Eisenman New York: Monacelli Press, 1996
AA SHELFMARK: 72.01.036:92EIS DAV

Fin d’Ou T HouS / Peter Eisenman; introductory essays by Nina Hofer and Jeffrey
Kipnis London: Architectural Association, 1985 ISBN 0904503585
AA SHELFMARK: 72.01.036(73):92EIS ARC (AACOLLMAIN)

First works: emerging architectural experimentation of the 1960s & 1970s /

edited by Brett Steele and Francisco Gonzalez de Canales
London: AA Publications, 2009 ISBN 9781902902814
AA SHELFMARK: 72.036 STE

Five architects: Eisenman, Graves, Gwathmey, Hejduk, Meier / Peter Eisenman

New York: Oxford University Press, 1975 ISBN 0195197941
AA SHELFMARK: 72.036(73) EIS

Folding in architecture /edited by Greg Lynn Chichester: Wiley, 2004 (reprint

from 1993) ISBN 0470092181 (includes ‘Peter Eisenman : Alteka Office
Building, Tokyo; Center for the Arts, Emory University, Atlanta; Peter Eisenman:
The Points of Space’
AA SHELFMARK: 72.036:518.5 LYN

Formal basis of architecture / Peter Eisenman Lars Muller 2006

ISBN 3037780711 (facsimile reproduction of Dissertation submitted in August
1963 at Cambridge University)
AA SHELFMARK: 72.036 EIS

Future City: experiment and utopia in architecture 1956-2006 / edited by Jane

Alison and others
London: Barbican Art Gallery, 2006 ISBN 9780500286517
AA SHELFMARK: 72.036:711.4 ALL

Giuseppe Terragni: transformations, decompositions, critiques / Peter Eisenman,

with texts by Giuseppe Terragni and Manfredo Tafuri New York: Monacelli
Press, 2003 ISBN 1885254962
AA SHELFMARK: 72.036(45):92TER EIS

House X / Peter Eisenman New York: Rizzoli, 1982 ISBN 0847803465

AA SHELFMARK: 72.01.036 EIS
Houses for sale / Architects: Emilio Ambasz, Peter Eisenman, Vittorio Gregotti,
Arata Isozaki, Charles Moore, Cesar Pelli, Cedric Price, Oswald Mathias Ungers /
B J Archer New York: Rizzoli, 1980
AA SHELFMARK: 728.3.036 ARC

Houses of cards / Peter Eisenman New York: Oxford UP, 1987

ISBN 0195051300
AA SHELFMARK: 728(73):92EIS EIS

Investigations in architecture: Eisenman Studios at the GSD, 1983-85 / Jonathan

Jova Marvel Harvard University Press, 1986
AA SHELFMARK: 72.01.036 MAR

Light construction reader / edited by Todd Gannon New York: Monacelli Press,
2002 ISBN 1580931057 (includes essay by Peter Eisenman)
AA SHELFMARK: 628.9:72.036 GAN

M Emory games: Emory Center for the Arts / Peter Eisenman

New York: Rizzoli, 1995
AA SHELFMARK: 72.01.036:92EIS EIS

Mies reconsidered: his career, legacy and disciples / Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago Art Institute, 1986 (includes essay by Peter Eisenman)
AA SHELFMARK: 72.036(73):92MIE ZUK

Monolithic architecture / Rodolofo Machado and Rodolphe el-Khoury

Munich: Prestel, 1995 ISBN 3791316095 (includes Peter Eisenman)
AA SHELFMARK: 72.01.036 MAC

Moving arrows Eros and other errors: an architecture of absence / Peter

Eisenman London: Architecture Association, 1986 ISBN 0904503682
AA SHELFMARK: 72.01.036:92EIS ARC (MLC)

Oppositions reader: selected readings from a journal for ideas and criticism in
architecture 1973-1984 / edited and with an introduction by K Michael Hays
New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1998 ISBN 1568981538
(includes text by Peter Eisenman)
AA SHELFMARK: 72.01.036 OPP

Perfect acts of architecture / Jeffrey Kipnis New York: MOMA, 2001 (includes
Eisenman, Koolhaas….) ISBN 0870700391
AA SHELFMARK: 741.036 KIP

Peter Eisenman / El Croquis 41 Madrid, El Croquis

AA SHELFMARK: 72.036(73):92EIS CRO
Peter Eisenman / El Croquis 83 Madrid: El Croquis, 1997
AA SHELFMARK: 72.036(73):92EIS CRO

Peter Eisenman: Barefoot on white-hot walls / edited by Peter Noever Hatje

Cantz, 2004 ISBN 3775715614
AA SHELFMARK: 72.036(73):92EIS NOE (MLC)

Peter Eisenman: feints / edited by Silvio Cassara Milan: Skira, 2006

ISBN 887624378X
AA SHELFMARK: 72.036(73):92EIS CAS

Peter Eisenman: Fin d’Ou T Hou S / Architectural Association, with introductory

essays by Nina Hofer and Jeffrey Kipnis London: AA, 1985
AA SHELFMARK: 72.01.036(73):92EIS ARC

Philip Johnson: the constancy of change / Emmanuel Petit, includes essay by

Peter Eisenman New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009
ISBN 9780300121810
AA SHELFMARK: 72.036(73):92JOH PET

Re-working Eisenman / Peter Eisenman London: Academy, 1993

AA SHELFMARK: 72.01.036:92EIS EIS

Secret life of buildings: an American anthology for modern architecture / Gavin

Macrae- Gibson Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1985 (includes Peter
Eisenman [House E1 Even Odd])
AA SHELFMARK: 72.01.036(73) MAC

Supercritical – Peter Eisenman meets Rem Kooolhaas / edited by Brett Steele

London: AA Publications, 2010 ISBN 9781902902517
AA SHELFMARK: 72.01.036 STE

Tadao Ando details / edited by Yukio Futagawa; criticism by Peter Eisenman /

Tadao Ando Tokyo: ADA Edita, 1992 ISBN 4871405516
AA SHELFMARK: 72.036(52):92AND AND (MLC)

Talking architecture: interviews with architects / Hanno Rauterberg

Munich: Prestel, 2008 ISBN 9783791340135 (includes Peter Eisenman)
AA SHELFMARK: 72.01.036 RAU

Ten canonical buildings 1950-2000 / Peter Eisenman; foreword Stan Allen

New York: Rizzoli, 2008 ISBN 9780847830480
AA SHELFMARK: 72.036 EIS
Theoretical anxiety and design strategies in the work of eight contemporary
architects / Rafael Moneo Cambridge, Mass.; London: MIT Press, 2004
ISBN 0262134438 (includes Peter Eisenman)
AA SHELFMARK: 72.01.036 MON

Theorizing a new agenda for architecture: an anthology of architectural theory

1965-1998 / Kate Nesbitt, editor New York: Princeton AP, 1996
ISBN 1568980531
AA SHELFMARK: 72.01.036:8-82 NES

Tracing Eisenman: Peter Eisenman complete works / edited by Cynthia Davidson,

with essays by Stan Allen and others London: Thames and Hudson, 2006
ISBN 0500342253
AA SHELFMARK: 72.036(73):92EIS DAV

Unfolding Frankfurt / Peter Eisenman Ernst+Sohn, 1991

AA SHELFMARK: 72.01.036(43F):92EIS EIS

Unpacking my library: architects and their books / Jo Steffens; featuring an

essay by Walter Benjamin New Haven; London: Yale University Press in
association with Urban Center Books, the Architecture Bookstore of the Municipal
Art Society of New York, 2009 ISBN 9780300158939 (includes Peter Eisenman)
AA SHELFMARK: 72.036(02) STE

Wexner Center for the Visual Arts, the Ohio State University / Eisenman
Architects, and Richard Trott and Partners, with critical essays by Rafael Moneo
and Anthony Vidler New York: Rizzoli, 1989 ISBN 0847811166
AA SHELFMARK: PROCESSING

What a wonderful world: music videos in architecture / Groninger Museum

(Peter Eisenman, Zaha Hadid, Rem Koolhaas, Bernard Tschumi, Coop
Himmelblau) Groningen, Groninger Museum, 1990
AA SHELFMARK: 711.4.01.03 GRO

Writings / Philip Johnson; foreword by Vincent Scully; introduction by Peter

Eisenman; commentary by Robert A M Stern New York: Oxford University
Press, 1979
AA SHELFMARK: 72.01.036(73):92J JOH

Written into the void: selected writings 1990-2004 / Peter Eisenman, with
introduction by Jeffrey Kipnis New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2007
ISBN 9780300111118
AA SHELFMARK: 72.01.036 EIS
Journal Articles (Chronologically by year and month)

2009
‘There are no corners after Derrida’ / article by Peter Eisenman
in Log no.15 Winter 2009 / p.111-119

2008
‘Eisenman’s doubt’ / article by Peter Eisenman
in Log no.13-14 Fall 208 / p.185-191

‘Eisenman unwrapped: Peter Eisenman: ten canonical buildings 1950-2000,

edtied by Andrew Heid and Ariane Lourie’ / article by Jan-Carlos Kucharek (book
review)
in RIBA Journal vol.115 no.11 November 2008 / p.18

‘Sei punti [Six points]’ / article by Peter Eisenman (on the status of architecture
in a media culture)
in Casabella vol.72 no,.769 September 2008 / p.3-5 (text in
Italian, text in English p.135-136)

‘Peter Eisenman: Sheik Zayed National Museum, Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi,
United Arab Emirates’ (2007 competition entry for the design of a museum of
Islamic history)
in GA Document no.103 June 2008 / p.164-167 (text in
Japanese+English)

‘Peter Eisenman’s alibi’ / article by Timothy W Hyde (reviews five books of

Eisenman’s writings)
in Harvard Design Magazine no.28 Spring/Summer 2008 /
p.109-114

‘Have computers damaged architects’ design quality?’ / article by Peter Eisenman

and Neil Spiller
n Building Design no.1819 May 16, 2008 / p.3, 9

‘ArchTalkTour: Peter Eisenman’ / article by Lee Sang-leem

in Space (Seoul) vol.43 no.4 (485) April 2008 / p.117-137 (text
in Korean+English)
‘Documents… Peter Eisenman’ / article by Peter Eisenman
in Icon no.055 January 2008 / p.7, 9, 11, 39-44, 98

‘Peter Eisenman: House VI (Frank residence), Cornwall, Connecticut, USA, 1975’

in GA Houses no.101 January 2008 / p.131-133 (text in
Japanese+English)

‘The last grand tourist – travels with Colin Rowe: interview with Peter Eisenman’
/ article by Peter Eisenman
in Perspecta no.41 2008 / p.130-139

‘Lateness: a critique of the metaphysics of presence’ / article by Peter Eisenman

in Thresholds no.33 2008 / p.10-14

2007
‘Manifesto issue: to celebrate the fiftieth issue of Icon magazine which asks key
architects, designers and thinkers what they believe in: includes Peter Eisenman’
/ article by Justin McGuirk and others
in Icon no.050 August 2007 / p. 36-37, 73-90, 154

‘Autonomy and commerce: the integration of architectural autonomy’ / article by

Tahl Kaminer
in ARQ: Architectural Research Quarterly vol.11 no.1 2007 /
p.63-70

2006
‘Field of silent markers; Architects: Peter Eisenman’ / article by Carol Salus
in Landscape Architecture vol.96 no.11 November 2006 / p.42-47

2005
‘Existing in the absence of names’ / article by Francesco Dal Co
in Log no.6 Fall 2005 / p.91-95

‘Enormity of the banal: Eisenman’s memorial of order and chaos’ / article by

Kilian Enders
in Architecture Today no.161 September 2005 / p.78-87
‘Peter Eisenman: Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe’ / article by Peter
Eisenman
in A+U: Architecture and Urbanism (419) August 2005 / p.36-53
(text in Japanese+English)

‘En-Chora: review of Peter Eisenman, Jacques Derrida: Chora L Works’ / reviewer

Emily Apter
in Grey Room 920) Summer 2005 / p.80-83

‘Tear Garden; Architects: Peter Eisenman’ / article by Sarah Quigley

in Architecture New Zealand no.4 July/August 2005 / p.93-95

‘Senza nome. Peter Eisenman. Memoriale per gli Ebreo assassinate d’Europa a
Berlino [Without name. Peter Eisenman. Memorial to the Murdered Jews of
Europe in Berlin]’ / article by Francesco Dal Co and others
in Casabella vol.69 no.735 July/August 2005 / p.4-21, 97-99
(text in Italian+English)

‘Field of memory; Architects: Peter Eisenman’ / article by Peter Davey

in Architectural Review vol.218 no.1301 July 2005 / p.80-83

‘Peter Eisenman’ / article by Kieran Long

in Icon no.025 July 2005 / p.66-72

‘Memory field’; Peter Eisenman’ / article by Max Page

in Architecture (New York) vol.94 no.6 June 2005 / p.37-45

‘An undulating field; Architects: Pete Eisenman’ / article by Kieran Long

in Icon no.024 June 2005 / p.32-33

‘In tribute to Philip Johnson’ / article by Peter Eisenman and others

in A+U: Architecture and Urbanism no.5 (416) May 2005 / p.6-13
(text in Japanese+English)

‘Peter Eisenman’ / article by Alexia Meier

in Moniteur Architecture AMC no.152 May 2005 / p.86-90 (text in
French)

‘Labirinto di cemento [The concrete labyrinth]; Architects: Peter Eisenman’ /

article by Marco Belpoliti
in Domus no.881 May 2005 / p. 72-79 (text in Italian+English)
‘Philip Johnson et moi – 1906-2005 [obituary to Philip Johnson, 1906-2006]’ /
article by Peter Eisenman
in Architecture d’Aujourd’hui no.357 March/April 2005 / p.36 (text
in French)

‘Fame as the avatar of history’ / article by Peter Eisenman

in Perspecta no.37 2005 / p.164-173

‘Eisenmananamnesis [The work of Peter Eisenman]’ / article by Marian Zervan

in Projekt vol.47 no.2 (431) 2005 / p.32-45 (text in Slovak)

2004
‘Environment c.1973’ / article by Reinhold Martin (on environmental theory in
1970s America, focusing on the theories of Peter Eisenman)
in Grey Room no. 14 Winter 2004 / p.78-101

‘Eisenman’s Terragni: distancing from Mother Stability and Father Gravitas’ /

article by Emmanuel Petit
in Log no.3 Fall 2004 / p.81-89

‘Making something out of nothing’ / article by Ed Dorrell (Peter Eisenman,

winner of the RIBA’S Jencks Award, talks about prizes, football and architectural
education)
in Architects’ Journal vol.220 no.14 October 14, 2004 / p.12

‘Il giardino dei passi perduti, Museo di Castelvecchio, Verona [The garden of lost
steps, Museo di Castelvecchio]; Architects: Peter Eisenman’ / article by Otto
Wetzel
in Casabella vol.68 no.723 June 2004 / p.16-21 (text in Italian)

‘The box of changes; Architects: Peter Eisenman of Eisenman Architects’ / article

by Peter Eisenman
in Domus no.870 May 2004 / p.92-99 (text in Italian+English)

‘The shape of things to come: conference, Columbus, OH’ / article by Todd

Gannon ( Conference in which Peter Eisenman, six young practitioners, and
architectural critics discuss the shape of contemporary architectural discourse)
in Log (2) Spring 2004 / p.7-13
‘The box of changes’ / article by Peter Eisenman (proposal for a public square
and museum overlooking the Pearl River in the heart of Guangzhou, China)
in Domus no.870 May 2004 / p.92-99

‘Digital scrambler: from index to codex’ / article by Peter Eisenman

in Perspecta no.35 2004 / p.40-53

‘Displaying architecture: Eisenman’s exhibition’ / article by Andrew Benjamin

in Architectural Review Australia no.92 2004 / p.24-26

2003
‘Challenging norms: Eisenman’s obsession [interview]’ / Peter Eisenman
interviewed by Robert A Ivy
in Architectural Record 191 (10) October 2003 / p.82-86

‘Now still absent: Eisenman’s Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe’’/ article
by Andrew Benjamin
in Architectural Theory Review vol.8 no.1 April 2003 / p.57-62

2002
‘Ripensamenti: Peter Eisenman [Reputations: Peter Eisenman]’ / article by Deyan
Sudjic
in Domus no.854 December 2002 / p.146-147 (text in
Italian+English)

‘The new paradigm and September 11th: Peter Eisenman in conversation with
Charles Jencks / Peter Eisenman and Charles Jencks
in Architectural Design 72 (4) July 2002 / p.98-106

2001
‘Notes on conceptual architecture: towards a definition’ / article by Peter
Eisenman
in A+U: Architecture and Urbanism no.2 (365) February 2001 /
p.3-12 (text in Japanese+English)
2000
‘Un classicismo perduto: recenti progetti di Peter Eisenman [ Classicism lost:
recent projects by Peter Eisenman]’ / article by Franco Purini
in Industria delle Costruzioni vol.34 no.347 September 2000 /
p.32-60 (text in Italian+English)

‘Citta della Cultural della Galizia, Santiago de Compostela, Spagna [The Galicia
City of Culture, Santiago de Compostela, Spain]; Architects: Eisenman Architects’
/ article by Peter Eisenman
in Domus no.824 March 2000 / p.9-15 (text in Italian+English)

‘Peter Eisenman. From the House of the Fascists to the Holocaust Memorial’ /
article by Francesco Dal Co and Peter Eisenman
in Casabella vol.64 no.675 February 2000 / p.32-43 (text in
Italian+ English summaries)

1999/2000
‘El ano Eisenman [Peter Eisenman’s year]’ / article by Manuela Salas
in Arquine no.10 Winter 1999/2000 / p.6-8 (text in
Spanish+English)

1999
‘Historian Colin Rowe, Cornell educator, 79: obituary’ / article by Peter Eisenman
in Architecture (New York) vol.88 no.12 December 1999 / p.25

‘La fotografia del CCA [Photography at the CCA]. Architects at the dinner
celebrating the 90th birthday of Philip Johnson, at the Four Seasons restaurant,
the Seagram Building, New York, 8 July 1996]’ (pictured are Charles Gwathmey,
Terence Riley, David Childs, Frank Gehry, Rem Koolhaas, Zaha Hadid, Robert A
M Steren, Hans Hollein, Stanley Tigerman, Henry N Cobb, Kevin Roche, Michael
Graves, Arata Isozaki, Philip Johnson, Phyllis Lambert, Richard Meier, Peter
Eisenman, Jaquelin T Robertson)
in Casabella vol.63 no.670 September 1999 / p.86-87 (text in
Italian)

1998
‘The Peter principles’ / interview with Peter Eisenman
in Architecture (New York) vol.87 no.11 November 1998 / p.87-93
‘Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences. Escape from New York (and the
Guggenheim); Architects: Peter Eisenman’ / article by Peter Eisenman
in Casabella vol.62 no.658 July/August 1998 / p.20-25 (text in
Italian+English)

‘Staging the event. Derrida and Eisenman at the Cooper Union’ / article by
Michael Speaks
in Archis no.3 March 1998 / p.76-79 (text in Dutch+English)

‘Special issue: [Peter Eisenman]’ / article by Antonino Saggio

in Industria delle Costruzioni vol.32 no.317 March 1998 / p.4-54
(text in Spanish+English)

‘Diagram: an original scene of writing’ / article by Peter Eisenman

in ANY: Architecture New York no.23 1998 / p.27-29

1996
‘Aronoff Center for Design and Art, Cincinnati; Architects: Peter Eisenman’ /
article by Greg Lynn
in Domus no.788 December 1996 / p.18-25 (text in
Italian+English)

‘Aronoff Center for Design and Art, College of Design, Architecture, Art and
Planning, University of Cincinnati; Architects: Peter Eisenman’ / article by Kurt W
Forster
in Casabella vol.60 no.638 October 1996 / p.12-33 (text in
Italian+English)

‘Pete Eisenman’ / article by Luca Monica and Tito Canella

in Zodiac no.15 March/August 1996 / p.104-125 (text in
Italian+English)

‘Strategies of the sign: Giuseppe Terragni and the idea of the critical text’ /
article by Peter Eisenman
in Arquitectura Viva no.48 May/June 1996 / p.66-69 (text in
Spanish)

‘Peter Eisenman 1989-1995: special issue’ / article by Luis Fernandez-Galiano

and others
in A&V Monografias no.53 May/June 1995 / p.2-113 (text in
Spanish+English)
1994
‘Generative folds: the computer in Eisenman’s office’ / article by Jorge Sainz
in Arquitectura Viva no.39 November/December 1994 / p.100-101
(text in Spanish+English summaries)

‘Confronting the double zeitgeist’ / article by Peter Eisenman

in Architecture (AIA) vol.83 no.10 October 1994 / p.51, 53, 55

‘Excavating Eisenman’ / article by Joseph Giovannini

in Architecture (AIA) vol.83 no.6 June 1994 / p.57-63

‘Media-t(h)ing: Eisenman at the CCA; designers: Peter Eiseneman’ / article by

Ricardo Castro
in Canadian Architect vol.39 no.5 May 1994 / p.28-30

‘Peter Eisenman’ / article by Matthijs Bouw, and others

in Wiederhall Architectural Serial no.16 1994 / p. 40-55

1993
‘From deep structure to an architecture in suspense: Peter Eisenman,
structuralism and deconstruction ‘ / article by Thomas Patin
in Journal of Architectural Education vol.47 no.2 November 1993 /
p.88-100

‘Columbus Convention Center; Architects: Peter Eisenman’

in A+U: Architecture and Urbanism no.9 (276) September 1993 /
p. 122-149

‘Max Reinhardt Haus, Berlin; Architects: Peter Eisenman’

in AA Files no.25 Summer 1993 / p.10-13

‘Peter Eisenman’s interview with Phillip Johnson: Orientation Pavilion, New

Canaan, Connecticut; Architects: Philip Johnson’ / article by Peter Eisenman
in Zodiac no.9 March/August 1993 / p.134-149 (text in
Italian+English)
‘Folding in architecture’ / edited by Greg Lynn, includes Peter Eisenman and
others
in AD Profile 102, Architectural Design vol.63 no.3/4 March/April
1993 / p. 1-96

1992
‘The effects of singularity’ / article by Peter Eisenman
in AD Profile 100, Architectural Design vol.62 no.11/12 November
/ December 1992 / p. 42-45

‘Peter Eisenman’ / article by Frederic Levrat, and Sandford Kwinter

in Architecture d’Aujourd’hui no.279 February 1992 / p.98-115
(text in French, English summaries throughout)

‘Visions unfolding: architecture in the age of electronic media’ / article by Peter

Eisenman
in Domus no.734 January 1992 / p.17-24 (text in Italian+English)

1991
‘Recent projects of Peter Eisenman’ / article by R E Somol, and Cynthia Davidson
in A+U: Architecture and Urbanism no.9 (252) September 1991 /
p.3-138 (text in Japanese+English)

‘Maverick material’ / article by Jean Gorman

in Interiors vol.150 no.13 August 1991 / p.60-63

‘Mannequin chic: Peter Eisenman and the Wexner Center for the Visual Arts;
Architects: Peter Eisenman’ / arilce by Stephen White
in Architecture & Design vol.8 no.4 July/August 1991 / p. 70-77

‘Kolzumi lighting theater / IZM Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; Architects: Kojiro Kitayama,

and Peter Eisenman’ / / article by Kojiro Kitayama
in GA Document no.28 1991 / p.96-101 (text in
Japanese+English)

‘An interview with Peter Eisenman’ / article by Kari Jormakka

in Datutop no.14 1991 / p.73-89
1990
‘[The Frankfurt biocentre]; Architects: Peter Eisenman, and Eisenman Robertson
Architects’ / article by Maurizio Volgliazzo
in Arca no.43 November 1990 / p.52-59 (text in English+Italian)

‘Alvin Boyarsky 1928-1990’ / article by Peter Eisenman

in Blueprint no.70 September 1990 / p.9

‘An exchange between Jacques Derrida and Peter Eisenman’ / article by Jacques
Derrida and Peter Eisenman
in Assemblage no.12 August 1990 / p.6-17

‘All that is solid melts into air; Architects: Peter Eisenman’

in Blueprint no.66 April 1990 / p.26-31

‘Cooper Union student housing in New York; Architects: Eisenman Architects, and
Thomas Leeser
in Zodiac no.4 1990 / p.184-203

‘The Wexner fragments for the visual arts; Architects: Peter Eisenman’ / article
by Kay Bea Jones
in Journal of Architectural Education vol.43 no.3 Spring 1990 /
p.34-38

‘Recent works of Peter Eisenman’ / article by Tadao Ando and others

in A+U: Architecture and Urbanism no.1 (232) January 1990 /
p. 7-182 (text in Japanese+English)

‘Wexner Center for the Visual Arts, Columbus, Ohio; Architects: Peter Eisenman’
/ article by R E Somol
in Domus no.712 January 1990 / p.38-47 (text in Italian+English)

‘Wexner Center for the Visual Arts; Architects: Peter Eisenman, and Richard Trott
& Partners’
in GA Document no.26 1990 / p.6-27 (text in Japanese+English)

1989
‘Eisenman builds’ / article by Thomas Fisher, and others
in Progressive Architecture vol.70 no.10 October 1989 / p.67-99
‘Peter Eisenman versus Leon Krier: my ideology is better than yours (discussion)’
/ article by Peter Eisenman
in AD Profile 81: Architectural Design vol.59 no.9/10 September
/October 1989 / p.6-18

‘The man who puts windows in the floor’ / article by Tim Clarke (talks to Peter
Eisenman, master of deconstruction, about the house of dreams he is building in
Spain)
in Blueprint no.58 June 1989 / p.34-35

‘Peter Eisenman’ / article by Anja Hubener

in Arkitektur ( Stockholm) vol.89 no.2 March 1989 / p.32-40
(text in Swedish)

‘Peter Eisenman – En terror firma: in trails of grotextes’ / article by Jacques

Derrida and others
in Architectural Design vol.59 no.1/2 January/February 1989 /
p.40-43

‘Eisenman Architects’ / article by Peter Eisenman

in A+U: Architecture and Urbanism no.1 (220) January 1989 /
p.9-52 (text in Japanese+English)

1988
‘Tom’s loft, New York; Architects: Peter Eisenman, and Yorgancioglu Architects’ /
article by Faruk Yorgancioglu
in Domus no.700 December 1988 / p.66-69 (text in
Italian+English)

‘Peter Eisenman’s House X: or where should a psychotic live?’ article by Brenda

Marshall
In Transition no.25 Winter 1988 / p.5-12

‘Peter Eisenman: Eisenmanamnesie’ / article by Philip Johnson, and others

In A+U: Architecture and Urbanism no.8 supplement August 1988 /
p.8-179 (text in Japanese+English)

‘The blue line text’ / article by Peter Eisenman

in Architectural Design vol.58 no.7/8 July/August 1988 / p.5-9
‘The authenticity of difference: architecture and the crisis of reality’ / article by
Peter Eisenman
in Center vol.4 1988 / p.50-57

‘Interview with Peter Eisenman, Charles Jencks’

in Architectural Design vol.58 no.3/4 March/April 1988 / p.48-61

‘Biology center for the J W Goethe University of Frankfurt; The displacement of

structure and ornament in the Frankfurt project: an interview; Architects:
Eisenman Robertson Architects’ / article by Peter Eisenman, and Michael Hays
in Assemblage no. 5 February 1988 / p.28-57

1987
‘’Peter Eisenman’ / article by Carsten Juel-Christiansen
in Skala no.12 October 1987 / p.9-13 (text in Danish+English)

‘Peter Eisenman: three recent works’ / article by Kenneth Frampton

in Domus no.686 September 1987 / p.29-39, XIX-XX

‘Eisenman Robertson Architects’ / article by Peter Eisenman

in A+U: Architecture and Urbanism no.7 (202) July 1987 / p.15-80
(text in Japanese+English)

1986
‘Peter Eisenman: absent architecture’ / article by Robert Benson
in Progressive Architecture vol.67 no.12 December 1986 /
p.25, 34

‘Site unscene: notes on architecture and the concept of fiction’ / article by John
Whiteman and Peter Eisenman
in AA Files no.12 Summer 1986 / p.76-84

‘Peter Eisenman: points on the tactic of scaling’ / article by Giannantonio Avezzu

in Parametro vol.17 no.148 (6) July 1986 / p.54-57 (text in
Italian)

‘Peter Eisenman: special issue’

in SD no.258 (3) March 1986 / p.5-72 (text in Japanese+English)
1985
‘Not to be used for wrapping purposes’ / article by Robin Evans
in AA Files no. 10 Autumn 1985 / p.68-78

‘Peter Eisenman: the other space / article by Alain Pelissier, and others
in Techniques et Architecture no.360 June/July 1985 / p.26-55
(text in French, English summary (p.140)

‘(Mis)reading between the lines: Peter Eisenman’ / article by Janet Abrams

in Blueprint no.14 February 1985 /p.16-17

‘Leon Krier and Peter Eisenman: interview’ / article by Leon Krier and Peter
Eisenman
in Archives d’Architecture Moderne no.28 1985 / p.4-8

1984
‘Interview: Robert Venturi and Peter Eisenman’
in Summa no.203 August 1984 / p.32-38 (text in Spanish)

‘The interview issue’ (interviews with Hans Hollein, Peter Cook, Kenneth
Frampton, Steven Izenour, Stanley Tigerman, Haig Beck, Peter Eisenman)
In Transition vol.3 no.3/4 April/July 1984 / p.5-42

‘Eisenman Robertson Architects’ / article by Peter Eisenman

In Arquitectura (Madrid) vol.65 no.246 January/February 1984 /
p.32-56 (text in Spanish)

‘The end of the classical’ / article by Peter Eisenman

in Perspecta no.21 1984 / p.154-173

‘The futility of objects: decomposition and process of differentiation’ / article by

Peter Eisenman
in Lotus no.42 1984 / p.63-75 (text in Italian+English)

1983
‘From object ot dispersion: artificial architecture. A project of Peter Eisenman for
the Friedrichstrasse in Berlin’ / article by Ignacio de Sola-Morales Rubio, and
Peter Eisenman
in Arquitecturas bis no.45 December 1983 / p.16-23 (text in
Spanish)
‘New York Five’ / article by Mats Widbom (profile of three members of the New
York Five: Peter Eisenman, Michael Graves and John Hejduk)
in Arkitektur (Stockholm) vol.83 no.10 December 1983 / p.33-37
(text in Swedish)

‘Contrasting concepts of harmony in architecture: debate between Christopher

Alexander and Peter Eisenman; marginal comments on the debate between
Alexander and Eisenman’ / article by Christopher Alexander, Peter Eisenman, and
Georges Teyssot’
in Lotus no.40 1983 / p.60-73 (text in Italian+English)

1982
‘Aspects of modernism: the Maison Domino and the self-referential sign’ / article
by Peter Eisenman, translated by Richard Hylton
in Cahiers de la recherché architecturale no.12 November 1982 /
p.58-65 (text in French)

‘The way we were: interview with Philip Johnson. Discussion of the 1932
Museum of Modern Art exhibition on the International Style, its influence, and
the architecture of Philip Johnson’ / article by Peter Eisenman
in Parametro vol.13 no.109 August/September 1982 / p.38-43, 62

‘5 plus 10 – the New York five today’ / article by Janet Abrams

in Building Design no.602 July 9, 982 / p.12-17

1981
‘Houses EI Even Odd; Architects: Peter Eisenman’
in GA Document no.3 Winter 1981 / p.88-93 (text in
Japanese+English)

1980
‘Interview: Pete Eisenman; and, On Eisenman: House I to VI’ / article by Diane
Ghirado, Mark Mack and Lawrence Kutnicki
in Archetype vol.1 no.4 Winter 1980 / p. 30-36

‘Three texts for Venice’ / article by Peter Eisenman

in Domus no.611 November 1980 / p.9-11 (text in
Italian+English)
‘Architect as non-hero: Eisenman’s AA lecture entitled ‘Ghosts in the arena’’ /
Peter Eisenman
in Architects’ Journal vol.171 no.10 March 5, 1980 / p.471

‘Palladio or Terragni? Peter Eisenman talks about Giussepe Terragni at the AA’ /
article by Maurice Cooper
in Building Design no.484 February 22, 1980 / p.2

‘Peter Eisenman: special issue’

in A+U: Architecture and Urbanism no.1 (112) January 1980 / p.13-
252 (text in Japanese+English)

1979
‘House 11a in Palo Alto, California; Architect: Peter Eisenman’
in Progressive Architecture vol.60 no.1 January 1979 / p.84-85

1978
‘Project for a house; Architect: Peter Eisenman’
in Architecture d’Aujourd’hui no.200 December 1978 / p.26-27

‘Peter Eisenman: House VI’ / Peter Eisenman

in Architectural Design vol.48 no.1 January 1978 / p.27-29

1977
‘Behind the mirror: on the writings of Philip Johnson’ / article by Peter Eisenman
in Oppositions no.10 Fall 1977 / p.1-13

‘House VI (Frank Residence) in Cornwall, Connecticut; Architect: Peter Eisenman,

Randall Korman’ / article by Peter Eisenman, William Gass and Robert Gutman
in Progressive Architecture vol.58 no.6 June 1977 / p.57-67

‘Interview with Peter Eisenman’ / article by Alessandra Latour and Lauretta

Vinciarelli
in Architecture Mouvement Continuite no.l41 March 1977 / p.66-76
(text in French)

‘Peter Eisenman and the longing for classical reason’ / article by Hans van Dijk
in Wohnen-TA/BK no.3 February 1977 / p.4-10 (text in Dutch)
1975
‘Special issue: White and gray: twelve modern American architects: Peter D
Eisenman, Richard Meier, Michael Graves, Werner Seligman, Charles Gwathmey,
Robert A M Stern, Charles W Moore, Richard Weinstein, T Merrill Prentice,
Jaquelin T Robertson, Giovanni Pasanella, John Hejduk
in A+U: Architecture and Urbanism vol.5 no.4 (52) April 1975 /
special issue (text in Japanese, summaries in English)

1974
‘House III: Miller residence, Lakeville, Conn.; Architect: Peter Eisenman’ / article
by Peter Eisenman, David Morton and Robert Miller
in Progressive Architecture vol.55 no.5 May 1974 / p.92-99

‘House IV, Falls Village, Connecticut; Architect: Peter Eisenman’

in A+U: Architecture and Urbanism vol.4 no.3 (39) March 1974 /
p.89-98 (text in Japanese, title and captions in English)

1973
‘House III, Lakeville Connecticut; Architect: Peter D Eisenman’
in A+U: Architecture and Urbanism vol.3 no.11 November 1973 /
p.193-200 (text in Japanese+English)

‘House I, Princeton, New Jersey; Architect: Peter D Eisenman’ / article by Peter D

Eisenman and Kenneth Frampton
in A+U: Architecture and Urbanism vol.3 no.11 November 1973 /
p.177-192 (text in Japanese+English)

‘From Golden Lane to Robin Hood Gardens; or if you follow the Yellow Brick
Road, it may not lead to Golders Green’ / article by Peter Eisenman
in Oppositions no.1 September 1973 / p.27-56

‘Cardboard architecture: the work of Peter D Eisenman’ / article by P D Eisenman

in Casabella vol.37 no.374 (2) February 1973 / .17-31 (text in
Italian+English)

1972
‘House II, Hardwick, Vermont; Architect: P Eisenman’
in A+U: Architecture and Urbanism vol.2 no.9 September 1972 /
p.56-70 (text in Japanese+English)
‘Exploring the application of theories of communication to the problem of
generating architectural form: the work of Peter Eisenman and Michael Graves’ /
article by M Gandelsonas
in Progressive Architecture March 1972 / p. 68-87

1971
‘Notes on conceptual architecture: towards a definition’ / article by P D Eisenman
in Casabella no.359/360 December 1971 / p.48-58 (text in
Italian+English)

‘From object to relationship II: Giuseppe Terragni, Casa Giuliani Frigerio’ / article
by P D Eisenman
in Perspecta no.13/14 1971 / p.36-65

1970
‘Conceptual architecture: towards a definition’ / article by Peter Eisenman and
others
in Design Quarterly no.78/79 1970 / p.1-66

1963
‘Towards an understanding of form in architecture’ / article by P D Eisenman
in Architectural Design October 1963 / p.457-458

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Compiled by Aileen Smith, Deputy Librarian

May 2010