Peter Eisenman. Galicia Cidade da Cultura
06/02/2011.
Exhibition. CIRCULO DE BELLAS ARTES [MAD] Spain 07.02.11 > 13.03.11
metalocus, PEDRO NAVARRO
metalocus, PEDRO NAVARRO
Parallel to Contemporary Architecture Course directed by Peter Eisenman in the CBA, will open tomorrow, this exhibition comprises sixty large-format photographs of the Cidade da Cultura de Galicia’s project, designed by North American architect Peter Eisenman, showing the two buildings that were recently opened on 11th January –the Library and the Archive– as well as details of the work in progress, with special attention to structures, facades and building materials.
Peter Eisenman. Cidade da Cultura de Galicia. Photograph by P.Lameiro
Peter Eisenman. Galicia Cidade da Cultura
Peter Eisenman. Galicia Cidade da Cultura
Exhibition focuses on reflection and can sense the whole project, consisting of six buildings. Designed by Eisenman to host the best expressions of national and international culture, this new city, inclusive and pluralistic, will help to meet the challenges of information society and knowledge.
CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE COURSE
07.02.11 > 29.03.11
U.S. architect Peter Eisenman leads a new edition of Contemporary Architecture course which will examine, over seven sessions, the dense network that joins the discipline of architecture with the construction and design. The following architects are invited Pier Vittorio Aureli, Jeffrey Kipnis, Carme Pinos, Luis Fernández-Galiano, Antón García-Abril, Andrés Jaque y Alejandro Zaera-Polo.
PROGRAM
ARCHITECTURE VERSUS DESIGN
07.02.11
Peter Eisenman
Arquitectura versus diseño
14.02.11
Pier Vittorio Aureli
Arquitectura sans phrase: Hacia un lenguaje arquitectónico compartido
21.02.11
Jeffrey Kipnis
Prototipo y singularidad
28.02.11
Carme Pinos
Desde de contexto
07.03.11
Luis Fernández-Galiano
Vigencia de Vitruvio
14.03.11
Antón García-Abril
Densidad vs tensión
21.03.11
Andrés Jaque
Arquitecturizando el día a día. Cotidianizando lo arquitectónico
29.03.11
Alejandro Zaera-Polo
Envolventes
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Peter Eisenman
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
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