Artist of the day, September 18, 2020: Peter Eisenman, an American architect (#1097)

 Peter Eisenman (1932) is an internationally recognized architect and educator whose award-winning large-scale housing and urban design projects, innovative facilities for educational institutions, and series of inventive private houses attest to a career of excellence in design.

Prior to establishing a full-time architectural practice in 1980, Mr. Eisenman worked as an independent architect, educator, and theorist. In 1967, he founded the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies (IAUS), an international think tank for architecture in New York, and served as its director until 1982.

Mr. Eisenman is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Among other awards, in 2001 he received the Medal of Honor from the New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, and the Smithsonian Institution’s 2001 Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award in Architecture. He was awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 2004 Venice Architecture Biennale. Popular Science magazine named Mr. Eisenman one of the top five innovators of 2006 for the University of Phoenix Stadium for the Arizona Cardinals. In May 2010 Mr. Eisenman was honored with the Wolf Foundation Prize in the Arts, awarded in Jerusaleum.

Currently the Charles Gwathmey Professor in Practice at the Yale School of Architecture, Mr. Eisenman’s academic career also includes teaching at Cambridge, Princeton, Harvard, and Ohio State universities. Previously he was the Irwin S. Chanin Distinguished Professor of Architecture at The Cooper Union, in New York City. He is also an author, whose most recent books include: Written Into the Void: Selected Writings, 1990-2004 (Yale University Press, 2007) and Ten Canonical Buildings, 1950-2000 (Rizzoli, 2008), which examines in depth buildings by ten different architects.

Mr. Eisenman holds a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Cornell University, a Master of Science in Architecture degree from Columbia University, and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Cambridge University (U.K). He holds honorary Doctorates of Fine Arts from the University of Illinois, Chicago, the Pratt Institute in New York, and Syracuse University. In 2003, he was awarded an honorary Doctorate in Architecture by the Università La Sapienza in Rome.

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 Mr Peter Eisenman

House III, Lakeville, Connecticut, 1969-71

House VI, Cornwall, Connecticut, 1972-75

 House X, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, 1975

Cannaregio Town Square, Venice, Italy, 1978

Guardiola House, Cadiz, Spain, 1988

Firehouse for engine  Company 233 and Ladder Company 176, Brooklyn, New York, 1983-85

Wexner Center for the Visual and Fine arts Library, Columbus, Ohio, 983-89

Bruges Concert Hall, Bruges, Belgium 1983-1999

Jewelry

Koizumi Sangyo Corporation hjeadquarters Building, Tokyo, Japan, 1988-90

Koizumi Sangyo Corporation hjeadquarters Building, Tokyo, Japan, 1988-90

Aronoff Center for Design and Art,  Cincinnati, Ohio, 1988-96

Groningen Music-Video Pavilion, Groningen, The Netherlands, 1990

Nuniotani Office Building, Tokyo, Japan, 1990-92

Nuniotani Office Building, Tokyo, Japan, 1990-92

Greater Columbus Convention Center, Columbus, Ohio, 1990-93

Staten Island Institute for Arts and Sciences, St. George, Staten Island, New York 1997-2001

State Farm Stadium, Glendale, Arizona, 1997-2006

State Farm Stadium, Glendale, Arizona, 1997-2006

Berlin Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, Berlin, Germany, 1998-2005

Citi of Culture of Galicia, Santiago de Compostela, Spain 1999 - current

Citi of Culture of Galicia, Santiago de Compostela, Spain 1999 - current

Bayern Munich Stadium, Munich, Germany, 2001

Deportivo la  Coruna, La Coruna, Spain  2001

Residenze Carlo Erba, Milano, Italy, 2009-19

Residenze Carlo Erba, Milano, Italy, 2009-19

 Yenikapi Archaeologic Museum and Aecheo Park, Istanbul, Turkey, 2012 - current

Yenikapi Archaeologic Museum and Aecheo Park, Istanbul, Turkey, 2012 - current

Taichung City Cultural Center, Taichung, Taiwan, 2013

Guggenheim Helsinki Museum Competition, Helsinki, Finland, 2016

 Rug for ARDinD, 2018

Hungatian Museum of Transport, Budapest, Hungary, 2019