2000s Illustrated Quarto, Peter Eisenman's Giuseppe Terragni: Transformations, Decompositions, Critiques, Signed - 1 Book

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Eisenman, Peter. Giuseppe Terragni: Transformations, Decompositions, Critiques.

New York: The Monacelli Press, 2003, first edition, dedication leaf signed by Eisenman … Read more Eisenman, Peter. Giuseppe Terragni: Transformations, Decompositions, Critiques.

New York: The Monacelli Press, 2003, first edition, dedication leaf signed by Eisenman in a dual multi-color ink sketch. 4to; 301 pp. Black cloth, text interspersed with over 500 original architectural diagrams and architectural photographs. Matte color graphic illustrated dust jacket with minor handling wear. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.

Provenance: Ex. Marc Goldstein (1935-2015), Skidmore Owings and Merrill (SOM) Design and Consulting Partner (1970-1991), responsible for some of SOM's most important architectural and urban planning accomplishments of the 20th century. Unmarked.

Forty years in the making, the book investigates two of Italian rationalist architect Giuseppe Terragni's masterworks: the Casa del Fascio (1933-36) and the Casa Giuliani-Firgerio (1939-40). This far-reaching study...employs what Eisenman calls critical and textual reading of both buildings. He attempts to broaden the definition of the formal from a narrow aesthetic and compositional view to include first the conceptual and then the textual that Eisenman begins to define an idea of the critical in architecture. Eisenman's methodological approach... employs the various articulations and openings on the facades constitute a set of marks, notations that provide the basis for his analysis. ... Also included in the book are an essay by Terragni and a critique by Manfredo Tafuri. Together, the architect and the author establish a new theoretical and analytical framework. See less