The House II, that was built in 1970 by architect Peter Eisenman, still looks clearly modern, with its overlapping rectangular planes and its open spaces on a tridimensional grid. The house is part of a set of ten architectural experiment designed by Eisenman, though only four were actually completed.
Over time, the house, designed by Peter Eisenman, deteriorated gradually. The original flat roof did not withstand the heavy snowfall and was replaced with a slightly sloped one. The owner also added floor grates and expanded walls. The home was overhauled in 2000 with a full renovation that returned it to its original.
 
House II, a single-family dwelling for Mr. and Mrs. Richard Falk, was constructed on a hilltop near Hardwick, Vermont. The ground floor includes a living room with fireplace, kitchen, dining room, playroom, restroom and two terraces, one facing east for morning use and one facing south for the evening. The second level is divided into three areas of identical width, each area being two steps higher than the previous one; the lowest level comprises two bedrooms and a bathroom, the middle level a master bedroom and study, and the upper level a study. All of the second floor rooms have skylights. The structure consists of steel columns and girders with non-bearing wood-frame walls, as for House I. The exterior wood siding is painted white, as are the plaster walls, ceilings and wood of the interior.
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One of the four prototypes built and still maintained, House VI, hit the market in 2013 for $1.4 million.

Now, "80 organic acres, large pond, barn, 4 stalls, studio -guest quarters above. Magnificent mountain views, 20 miles from Stowe Village", It’s listed for sale by owner for $850,000 / €781,897.

Peter Eisenman. A distinguished member of the group of The New York Five, he opened his own studio in New York in 1980, after teaching at some of the most prestigious universities of the World, such as Harvard, Cambridge, Princeton, Yale and Ohio.

Peter Eisenman holds a Bachelor of Architecture degree form Cornell University, a Master of Science in Architecture degree from Columbia University, an M. A. and Ph. D. degrees form Cambridge University (UK). 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 Universitá La Sapienza in Rome.

In 1967, Eisenman founded in New York the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies (IAUS), a body of international experts dedicated to architecture, which he was director of until 1982. He was awarded the first prize at the third edition of the Venice Architecture Biennale in 1985 for his project "Romeo & Juliet". He was also one of the two architects chosen to represent the United States at the Fifth International Architecture Exhibition in Venice in 1991, and he returned there again in 2002 and 2004 to display the project for the City of Culture of Galicia.

He has authored emblematic architectural works such as the Wexner Center for the Arts in Ohio, the Aronoff Center at the University of Cincinnati or the Holocaust Memorial located near the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. His projects are characterized by a style defined as "modern deconstructivism", very close to the line of work of Arata Isozaki, Frank Gehry or Rem Koolhaas.

Peter Eisenman has also been awarded many other prizes and distinctions, including the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Brunner Award and the National Honor Award of the American Institute of Architects, the latter on two occasions, one for the Wexner Center in Ohio and the other for the headquarters of the Koizumi Sangyo Corporation in Tokyo.

In 2010, he received the international Wolf Prize in Architecture

Website of Eisenman Architects

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