12th March
Peter Eisenman is an internationally recognized architect whose award-winning large-scale housing and urban design projects, innovative facilities for educational institutions attest to a career of excellence in design.
For the cycle MI/ARCH | 8 public lectures on urban planning and design curated by Stefano Boeri.
Peter Eisenman is an internationally recognized architect whose award-winning large-scale housing and urban design projects, innovative facilities for educational institutions attest to a career of excellence in design. Since 1980, Mr. Eisenman worked as an independent architect, educator, and theorist. In 1967, he founded the New York Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies (IAUS) and served as its director until 1982.
Mr. Eisenman is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2001, he received the Medal of Honor from the New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects and the Smithsonian Institution’s 2001 Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award in Architecture. He was awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 2004 Venice Architecture Biennale. Popular Science magazine named Mr. Eisenman one of the top five innovators of 2006 for the University of Phoenix Stadium for the Arizona Cardinals. In May 2010 Mr. Eisenman was honored with the Wolf Foundation Prize in the Arts, awarded in Jerusaleum.
Mr. Eisenman’s academic career includes teaching at major US universities. He is also an author, whose most recent books include: Written Into the Void: Selected Writings, 1990-2004 (Yale University Press, 2007) and Ten Canonical Buildings, 1950-2000 (Rizzoli, 2008). Mr. Eisenman holds a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Cornell University, a Master of Science in Architecture degree from Columbia University, and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from 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 Università La Sapienza in Rome.
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