Peter Eisenman architectural drawings for House VI 1972

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Peter Eisenman architectural drawings for House VI 1972

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Sixty-three architectural drawings in pencil, pen and marker on paper document the design development of House VI, one of Peter Eisenman's most important early polemical designs. Commissioned by Suzanne and Dick Frank, it was designed and built in 1972-1975, in Cornwall, Connecticut. All the drawings in this collection date from 1972.

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Frank, Dick

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Eisenman Architects.

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Eisenman, Peter, 1932-....

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Biographical/Historical Note American architect, educator and theoretician, Peter Eisenman founded the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies in New York City in 1967. Critics of that time dubbed him one of the New York Five (along with Michael Graves, Charles Gwathmey, John Hejduk, and Richard Meier), a loose, theoretical and aesthetic grouping of New York architects that presaged Post-Modernism. The Corbusier-inspired design of House ...

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Frank, Suzanne S. (Suzanne Shulof)

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