Lecture date: 1993-02-18
Illustrating his talk with several of his own projects, including the Columbus Convention Centre, the Performing Arts Centre in Emory, Atlanta, and various projects in Berlin, Dusseldorf, and Frankfurt, Peter Eisenman discusses notions of affect, singularity, and aggregation in relation to the conditions of what he views as an epochal shift from a mechanical paradigm to an electronic paradigm. He argues that in the age of electronic media, architecture, as the sine qua non of the mechanical paradigm, needs to be reestablished to its condition of physical presence (or presentness). Contemplating the mediated environment of the electronic paradigm and the significance of gender issues for the theory and practice of architecture, Eisenman explores the possibilities of creating a non-phallocentric architecture, folding buildings, and coming to terms with those contemporary conditions that have lead to a loss of environmental empathy and the loss of a ‘real’ time and a ‘real’ space. (94 mins)
Followed by Peter Eisenman in conversation with Alan Balfour. (10 mins)
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