Introduction：
Peter Eisenman was born in 1932, lived in New York, studied in Cornell masters at Columbia university
Mr Eisenman is an internationally recognized architect and educator. As the chief architect of Eisenman architecture firm, he designed large-scale residential areas and urban design projects, innovative educational institutions and a series of groundbreaking private residences. He has taught at Cambridge university, Harvard university, Yale university, Princeton university, Ohio state university and Cooper union. His major buildings include the Wexner Center in Ohio (1989), the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin (2005), and his unfinished City of Culture in Santiago de Compostela (begun 1999). Besides, he has published a large number of works, including ：Eisenman: Inside Out, Selected Writings 1963–1988; Written into the Void, Selected Writings 1990–2004; Tracing Eisenman; The Formal Basis of Modern Architecture; and Giuseppe Terragni: Transformations, Decompositions, Critiques.
Explain how the deconstructionist theories have shaped your designs
As the strategy of postmodernism, deconstruction, destructuralism, or after the strategy of structuralism, promoted the existing symbol and the decline of structure or divided, but promise not replace, Eisenman did not give us a new absolute. Instead, he offers a psychological void that can trigger personal and cultural anxiety and confusion.
Eisenman's design is a formal or structured inspection that, by definition, cannot be closed in nature.
What were the organizing principles of your work?
Grid organizing principle of an earlier work, the house a series of straight line box he investigation and express all kinds of theory of ideas, including the concept of "deep structure" there is a general proposition, "the underlying order equipment, is a natural and logical design of the generator." These buildings are considered to be independent, self-referential, independent of the human environment or function, as a function of mathematical universality. The structure is calm and rational, but it is a completely self-referential reason.
How did computers influence your work on the wexler center in Ohio
He opposed, displacement, events, grid, mathematics, multiple geometric order, space forms of distortion and folding of continuing interest seems to be very suitable for computer aided design (CAD). These design comes from the competition for virtual house (1997), and staten island of arts and sciences (1997) a combination of painting, showed that the architect will continue in the contemporary architectural theory and practice has considerable influence and impact. As Kwinter of Stanford university points out: "in an eisenman world. As Kwinter, of Stanford university, points out: "in Eisenman's work, the structure is always produced from the original model, and this pattern is broken.The nature of such negation implies a persistent state, impossible to reach the final solution, and reinterpret the spell of deconstruction. Similarly, he observes, "like derrida, eisenman conceived of the plan as a text. In the sense of semiotics, meaning has never been exhausted; There will be new explanations for the new additions or modifications to the plan/text.As in the written text, there is the possibility of a false explanation. Or, as eisenman puts it, a text that does not lead to the truth or to evaluate the conclusions, rather, is the wrong interpretation. The endless process.
Who were your main influences in your work and What influence did he or she have on your work
Jacques Derrida,
The reason why Jacques was important in the stage of my work is that he said that there was a possibility in language to separate the sign and the signified − that is, the thing and its sign. What has made architectures fascinating for Post-Structuralist philosophy is that architecture is about the relationship of the sign to the signified, that the column, for example , is the sign of the column and the column itself; or the wall is the sign of the wall and the wall itself. In Alberti’s Palazzo Rucellai, there is both a grid system and a wall-bearing system, which means the structural system is redundant or redundant. This is also the case in my House II where there is a structural system which is redundant either. I would like to say that my project is "modernism", not only modernism, but also from a philosophical and critical point of view, in Nietzsche, heidegger, derrida and some other aspects. So when I built House II with a wall system the kind that could support the house and a column system the kind that could support the house, there is a sense of redundancy with the two systems. When you feel this redundancy, the walls are either structural or signs. Is that possible, as in language, to separate symbols from walls, and what could be called ‘free floating signifiers’?
Talk about your doctoral thesis completed more than half a century ago. In the preface, there is a challenging question that your professional Colin Rowe once threw to you: " aren't the principles you said universally applicable, so why should you emphasize" modern " separately?
Explore the relationship between modernity and universality, rather than the relationship between modernity and classicism.
There is a concept mentioned in your doctoral thesis: disegno vs colure
My understanding is that this concept arose from renaissance painting, and after the enlightenment thoughts, there appeared a relatively clear philosophical distinction, namely concept, which was completely different from perception. As we know, his academic position is obviously to support ideas related to concepts, which means that people can distinguish something pure from perception, which is much like what Kant is doing. My question is, does he think it is necessary to have a deep understanding of these philosophical thoughts?
First of all, I think it is still significant to distinguish between " line" and " color" today. The line basically represents an abstraction. Color will involve more emotions, which are related to people's emotions and are material. So you see, color is always filled between two lines. This kind of thing still exists today