The Formal Basis of Modern Architecture

by Princeton Architectural Press and Peter Eisenman

First published in 2006 (and now rare), and originally written as a dissertation in 1963, The Formal Basis of Modern Architecture is the acclaimed American architect Peter Eisenman's masterly formal analysis of architecture. "I wanted to write an analytic work that related what I had learned to see, from Palladio to Terragni, from Raphael to Guido Reni, into some theoretical construct that would bear on modern architecture, but from the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 303778573X
• ISBN13: 9783037785737
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Lars Muller Publishers
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 2.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 9.1" x 9.6"