Peter Eisenman, House XI, Unites-States of America, 1978

Peter Eisenman is an American architect. He was part of the New York Five. This is a group of five New York City architects (Peter Eisenman, Michael Graves, Charles Gwathmey, John Hejduk and Richard Meier) whose photographed work was the subject of a Committee of Architects for the Study of the Environment meeting at the Museum of Modern Art in 1969. He followed the courses of  high modernism and deconstructivism.

The building consists of 7 levels, 4 of which are bellow ground level. This makes the volume itself is never completly visible and as a result the building ends up looking smaller. To make the underground floors reachable by daylight, there are some cutouts solely for this purpose. The achitect alternates closed off and open “boxes” according to the desired function (open livingspaces and closed off bedrooms). The interior complements the architecture.

References

• Roberto d’Amico, Paolo Sironi – Luigi Cosenza, Bernard Rudofsky, Progettto per una villa 1936 – Corso di Arredamento e Architettura d’Interni 1^st year prof. Ottolini

Authors
Fariza Kalitsova
Sarah Carpentier
Matthieu Najm