biography
| name: |
Eisenman, Peter D(avid)
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pronunciation:
[iyznman]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1932– )
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| biography:
| Educator, writer, and architect, born in Newark, New Jersey, USA. Founder and director of the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies, New York (1967–82), he espoused a linguistic theory of architecture, becoming a controversial but internationally influential deconstructivist theoretician. His later work included such large institutional projects as the Wexner Center (1983–9, with Richard Trott), Ohio State University, Columbus, OH. |
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