Thursday, December 07, 2006

Peter Eisenman and Rem Koolhaas

First this by Eisenman,


and then this by Koolhaas.










They talk. And soon you can read what they say.
pub date March '07.
Kool-man.

Eisenman - 'mobius strip' - for Max Reinhardt Haus in Berlin - 1992 - unbuilt.
Koolhaas - Central Chinese Television building in Beijing - under construction.

4 comments:

Darren said...

somol and kipnis have been encouraging their students to purchase since earlier this year...delayed in print apparently

Julieta said...

where exactly is located the
max reinhardt project ????

Edward Lifson said...

Peter Eisenman's early 1990's Max Reinhardt project was for Berlin, Germany but is unbuilt.

Of course, with Eisenman a "highly theoretical architect (!) perhaps that makes it MORE important (?).

MoMA owns a modelof it.

Sean said...

You know, Peter Eisenman referred to his own design, the Mobius Strip, as well... a vagina. Take a second look.