Peter Eisenman

American architect Peter Eisenman is a deconstructivist who shuns the term. He embraces unconventional theories that have shrouded him in controversy.

Deconstructivism is a development of postmodern architecture that began in the late 1980s. It centers on the ideas of fragmentation, an interest in manipulating ideas of a structure’s surface that distort some of the elements of architecture itself.

Deconstructivists seek to move architecture away from what they see as the confining ‘rules’ of modernism such as “form follows function”, “purity of form”, and “truth to materials.” They prefer to stimulate unpredictability and control chaos. Read more