Peter Eisenman seems one of the most influencial architects of the contemporary time.
It is said that if Jacques Derrida started the deconstructive phylosophies for architecture, Eisenman rendered it in practice.
Peter Eisenman (born August 11, 1932 in Newark, New Jersey) is one of the foremost practitioners of deconstructivism in American architecture. Eisenman’s fragmented forms are identified with an eclectic group of architects that have been, at times unwillingly, labelled deconstructivists. Although Eisenman shuns the label, he has had a history of controversy aimed at keeping him in the public (academic) eye. His theories on architecture pursue the emancipation and autonomy of the discipline and his work represents a continued attempt to liberate form from all meaning, a struggle that most find difficult to understand. He always had strong cultural relationships with European intellectuals like his English mentor Colin Rowe and the Italian historian Manfredo Tafuri. The work of philosopher Jacques Derrida is a key influence in Eisenman’s architecture.

On the coming Thursday we are going to listen to a lecture by Architect Nurur Rahman Khan on the works and philosophies of Peter Eisenman as a part of the lecture series on the Theories and Manifestos of Contemporary Architecture. Hope everyone will get a lot from this discussion… so you are invited, come and join in the exciting discourse session.
When: at 17:30 hrs. on 19.04.2007 Thursday.
Where: Open Studio, Department of Architecture, The University of Asia Pacific,
H#51, R#4A, Dhanmondi, Dhaka, Bangladesh.