EISENMAN, Peter.
Codex: The City of Culture of Galicia.
First Edition of Codex; Signed by Peter Eisenman
New York: Monacelli Press, 2005.
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First edition of this work by Eisenman. Oblong quarto, original wrappers as issued, illustrated. In fine condition. Signed by Peter Eisenman on the half-title page.
Codex: The City of Culture of Galicia (Monacelli Press, 2005) is Peter Eisenman’s extended, project-specific argument for architecture as a generative “text”—a coded system in which form, site, and program are produced through operations rather than composed as static objects. Centered on Eisenman’s competition-winning scheme for Santiago de Compostela’s Cidade da Cultura, the book frames the complex as a cultural acropolis of museums, libraries, and auditoria distributed across Monte Gaiás and organized as six interrelated volumes that read as a continuous, manipulated terrain. Eisenman’s key move—excavating and reconstituting the hilltop so that building becomes “artificial topography”—positions the project within late-twentieth-century debates on deconstructive form, figure/ground ambiguity, and the politics of monumental public culture; while also foregrounding the practical problem of reconciling a sensitive landscape with an assertively new image.
Codex: The City of Culture of Galicia.
$225.00
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