Conversations with Peter Eisenman: The Evolution of Architectural Style

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Product DescriptionPeter Eisenman’s architecture carries many layers and meanings; one question leads to the next and one conversation provokes another. Vladimir Belogolovsky’s new book highlights three separate conversations he had with the architect at his New York City studio. These conversations are part of the author’s ongoing interview project he initiated in 2002, discussing architecture with over 100 leading international architects. Peter Eisenman is in the bloodline of Palladio, Le Corbusier, and Robert Venturi, and in this book of brutally honest conversations between him and critic Vladimir Belogolovsky pithy assertions emerge, sometimes in contradiction, as Belogolovosky sympathetically questions this authority, one whose deep commitment to his art, over fifty years, has helped change contemporary architecture. (…) Eisenman bemoans the fact that celebrity architects have supplanted such authorities, that is, authors of a critical architecture that reflects on its own language. All art languages must do this, an important insight of semiotics in the 1960s when Eisenman first started critical practice. (Charles Jencks).About the AuthorVladimir Belogolovsky was born in 1970 in Odessa, Ukraine. He graduated from The Cooper Union School of Architecture in 1996 and worked as an architect until forming the Intercontinental Curatorial Project in 2008 in New York City, which focuses on curating and designing architectural exhibitions worldwide. He is the American correspondent for architectural journals Arquitectura Viva and SPEECH. He does interviews for his column on archdaily.com and is a corresponding member of the International Academy of Architecture in Moscow (IAAM). Belogolovsky has written six books and curated numerous international exhibitions. He has lectured at Columbia University, the University of Virginia, Architekturzentrum Wien, the Moscow Architectural Institute, Hong Kong University, the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Tongji University in Shanghai, and other universities and museums in more than thirty countries.