PETER ENGELMANN IN CONVERSATION WITH PETER EISENMAN | THE PASSAGEN SERIES: ARCHITECTURE AND DECONSTRUCTION
This special event at Deutsches Haus at NYU will feature internationally acclaimed architect and educator Peter Eisenman and Peter Engelmann. Peter Engelmann, publisher and editor of Passagen Verlag, will engage important thinkers from Europe and the United States. The discussions will examine key concepts of contemporary continental philosophy, such as deconstruction and postmodernism, as they relate to his guests’ various fields of expertise – among them architecture, politics, and human rights.
Peter Eisenman is not only an internationally renowned architect, but also a leading intellectual in his field, and uniquely positioned to reflect on architecture in the light of today’s most important philosophical discourses. With his guest, Peter Engelmann will discuss the meaning of Deconstruction for Eisenman’s architecture and how his architectural work possibly influenced Jacques Derrida’s concept of deconstruction.
Peter Eisenman (pictured, right, photo by Chris Wiley) is an architect and educator whose award-winning large scale housing and urban design projects, innovative facilities for educational institutions, and series of inventive private houses attest to a career of excellence in design. Prior to establishing a full-time architectural practice in 1980, Mr. Eisenman worked as an independent architect, educator and theorist. In 1967, he founded the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies (IAUS), an international think tank for architecture in New York, and served as its director until 1982. Mr Eisenman is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. 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. Popular Science magazine named Mr. Eisenman one of the top five innovators of 2006 for the University of Phoenix Stadium for the Arizona Cardinals. In May 2010 Mr. Eisenman was honored with the Wolf Foundation Prize in the Arts, awarded in Jerusalem. Currently the Charles Gwanthmey Professor in Practice at the Yale School of Architecture, Mr. Eisenman’s academic career also includes teaching at Cambridge, Princeton, Harvard, and Ohio State universities. Previously he was the Irwin S. Chanin Distinguished Professor of Architecture at The Cooper Union, in New York City. He is also an author, whose 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 ten different architects.
For the past 25 years, Peter Engelmann (left, photo by David Plakke) has been the publisher and editor of Passagen Verlag Publishers in Vienna. Passagen has translated the works of crucial French authors to German, such as Jacques Derrida, Jean-Francois Lyotard, Emmanuel Levinas, Sarah Kofman, Jean Baudrillard, Paul Virilio, Jacques Ranciere, Alain Badiou and Hélène Cixous. The publishing house developed a wide range of socially dedicated programs and was an important outlet for the publication of contemporary experimental literature. Peter Engelmann is the author of Dekonstruktion. Jaques Derridas semiotische Wende der Philosophie and Philosophie und Totalitarismus. Zur Kritik dialektischer Diskursivität. Eine Hegellektüre. as well as the editor of numerous works on French postmodern philosophy and deconstruction.
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