La arquitectura de Peter Eisenman valores proyectuales

Abstract

The current research studied the development of the set of values which were present in architecture in the last decades of the 20th Century. These values were originated from the abandonment of the formalism to the consideration of the concept. To understand its motivation “Peter Einseman´s architecture”, who is considered as a referent of this period, has been studied. For this research, the possible aesthetic and artistic influences which preceded the contemporaneous thinking were considered. The analysis departs from the Kantian theories going through linguistics, semiotics, the French post-structuralism and the deconstruction, ending up in the 20th Century’s artistic practices such as Neoplasticism, Minimal Art, Eccentric abstraction and Concept art. With all of this as a basis, Eisenman’s work which is divided in three points (vision, shape-figure and graphical tools) was examined. To complete the current research three architectural works: the House VI (1972-1975), the Aronoff Center for Desing and Art (1988-1996) and the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe (1998-2005) were analyzed. These works represent different projection stages of the author showing how important the figure as semantic became for Eisenman, with this, the author searched for an action and reaction dialogue in the object dynamics and the subject sensations. Acknowledging that his projection process was based in the determination of a cause, the generation of its geometry and the adaptation of the function, the spatial structure and the architecture’s standardized elements. This characterizes the process from the pre-establishment of a figure which extends the interpretation possibilities of the architectural space.