{"product_id":"blurred-zones-peter-eisenman-architects-19881998-9781580930499","title":"Blurred Zones: Peter Eisenman Architects  1988-1998","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the late 1980s  the New York-based office Eisenman Architects  led by architect and educator Peter Eisenman  shifted from an investigation of \"artificial excavations\" as an architectural tool to a conscious pursuit of a concept he called \"blurring.\" Blurring is not a visual effect but rather deals with affect  that is  a strategy for exploring a mind\/body relationship in architecture that displaces the conventional or expected experience of space. Blurring has many different definitions -- the between  the interstitial -- and takes many different forms in the work. Blurred Zones: Investigations of the Interstitial presents seventeen design projects  both built and unbuilt  and twelve essays that attempt to illuminate and illustrate the conceptual activity of blurring. The work from this period begins in 1988  with a project for the Guardiola House in Cadiz  Spain  and continues until 1998  with the Memorial for the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin. Also shown in this monograph  with photographs and Eisenmans signature drawings  are the Aronoff Center for Design and Art at the University of Cincinnati and the Greater Columbus Convention Center  both in Ohio; the Nunotani Headquarters Building in Tokyo; the Max Reinhardt Haus in Berlin; and the entry for the Church for the Year 2000 competition in Rome. Complementing the design projects are texts by critics: philosopher Andrew Benjamin  ANY magazine editor Cynthia Davidson  teacher and editor Luis Fernndez-Galiano  architectural historian K. Michael Hays  literary critic Fredric Jameson  architect and teacher Franco Purini  and philosopher John Rajchman. Eisenman himself has written a series of essays on blurring  the interstitial  and undecidability  bringing together the preoccupations of his two roles: architect and theoretician.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45647358328885,"sku":"ByrdShop_1580930492","price":71.23,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781580930499.jpg?v=1781691910","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/blurred-zones-peter-eisenman-architects-19881998-9781580930499","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}