Internationally Renowned Architect Peter Eisenman to Lecture
Peter Eisenman (Photo courtesy of Udo Hesse/akg-images)
Peter Eisenman will present a lecture titled “Project or Practice” at 5:30 p.m. March 27 in Giffels Auditorium, in Old Main, on the University of Arkansas campus in Fayetteville. The public is invited to attend this lecture, which is presented by the Fay Jones School of Architecture. Admission is free, with limited seating.
Eisenman is currently the Charles Gwathmey Professor in Practice at the Yale School of Architecture. His most recent books include Written Into the Void: Selected Writings, 1990-2004 (Yale University Press, 2007) and Ten Canonical Buildings, 1950-2000 (Rizzoli, 2008), which examines in depth buildings by 10 different architects.
Eisenman is an internationally recognized architect, educator, theorist and author with a career defined by award-winning large-scale housing and urban design projects, innovative facilities for educational institutions, and a series of inventive private houses. He worked as an independent architect, educator and theorist before establishing a full-time architectural practice in 1980, Eisenman Architects. In 1967, he founded the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies, an international think tank for architecture in New York, and served as its director until 1982.
He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects. Among other awards, in 2001 he received the Medal of Honor from the New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, and the Smithsonian Institution’s 2001 Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award in Architecture. He was awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 2004 Venice Architecture Biennale.
He holds a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Cornell University, a Master of Science in Architecture degree from Columbia University, and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Cambridge University (U.K), as well as several honorary degrees.
For more information, contact 479-575-4704 or architecture.uark.edu.
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Michelle Parks, director of communications
Fay Jones School of Architecture
479-575-4704,
mparks17@uark.edu
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