PETER EISENMAN AND DIAGRAMS
ф What are diagrams? ф Historical context of diagrams ф Diagrams and architecture ф Architects who use diagrammatic technique
ф Peter Eisenman and diagrams ф Diagram analogy, method adoption and practice ф Selected works
CONTENTS
ф Introduction to Peter Eisenman
What are diagrams? Diagram is a chart, graph, drawing or figure produced by graphic means & serves to explain & communicate facts-information of a particular case The property of information economy is the bottom value of diagrams for almost all disciplines The word “diagrams” is derived from the word “diagnosis”
Historical context of diagrams We express, record, events-memories and happenings around. Initially we scribbled in stones; To make it permanent we incorporated carving technique which has a three dimensional profile. With the invention of color, stone painting we expressed natural forms, human actions, material, life styles‌ After invention of paper, sketching style developed; which showed quality and intensity of light in sketches creating three-dimensional effects‌
Diagrams and Architecture Sketch - Is mainly about spatial form A perspective sketch provides three-dimensional information about a scene, specifying the shape of physical elements and their spatial relationships. A plan or elevation sketch may be concerned with the proportions of a building or its components. Although a sketch falls short of precisely specifying dimensions and shapes, it provides more shape and dimension information than a diagram.
Schematic drawing It uses conventional symbols to represent building components and, typically drawn free hand the schematic drawing retains the spatial feel of a sketch, drawn to scale, it is more complex and precise than a diagram, yet it does not attempt the accuracy and precision of a working drawing.
Bubble diagram
A Bubble diagram represents functional spaces in a floor plan with rough sizes, adjacencies, containment and connections.
Design Diagram
A Design Diagrams can be spatial, showing the relative positions and approximate sizes of rooms, or it can be non-spatial, showing a sequence of building construction.
Architects who use diagrams as a design-tool Ф Peter Eisenman Ф Ben van berkel Ф Greg lynn Ф Rem koolhaas Ф Kazuo sejima
Peter Eisenman
In 1980 he decided to focus more on his buildings and opened his professional practice: “Eisenman architects�. Since 1980, he has been involved in a number of large projects, from housing complexes in Berlin to high profile office buildings in Tokyo.
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A Eisenman began his career as an architect. From the thesis in 1963 up until about 1980, Eisenman, was involved both with the professional world of architecture and with teaching.
In 1999 he published the book “Diagram Diaries� which is both a summary of his works to date as well as an involved theoretical reflection on that work.
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Eisenman, while focusing more on building and his professional practice, still remains a highly theoretical architect.
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The condition of “look alike� is critical issue in the anteriority of architecture, structural parameters gradually evolved out of Greek, roman, and gothic architecture, so what was perceived as structural had to look structural to the eye of the beholder as the subject came into consciousness in the fifteenth century. This need introduced an idea of looking-in-the present. This produced a condition in representation, an expectancy, which can be called normal.
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Diagram Diaries
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Interiority of architecture Project governed by internal forces of shape and forms. Previously, formal diagrams rarely discussed linearity or relationships in space and time. When they dealt with form as well as functions, such diagrams became reductive geometric abstractions, ignoring such things as the critical thickness of walls and their possible effects as notations in space.
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Anteriority of architecture Project governed by external forces such as site & scientific progress
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Selected works
House Vl
Project Profile : Design / Competition 1972/1975 Cornwall, Connecticut Mr. & Mrs. Richard Frank 2000 square Feet wood frame exterior: Painted wood panels Interiors: painted wall boards.
This weekend house on a small rural site in north-western Connecticut provides the owners —a photographer and his wife— with a sensuous and playful environment, full of continuously changing light, shadows, color, and textures. The house is a studio landscape, providing an abstract background for the photography of still life and people. In doing so, the house and its occupants become part of a series of daily “living portraits.”