Peter Eisenman

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Peter Eisenman’s article “Cardboard Architecture” explores the links between formal structure and spatial organization. Eisenman proposes that there is a need to better understand the spatial organization and how this influences formal relationship by highlighting on House 1 he designed. Eisenman’s aim is to explore how the model-like qualities in architecture design represented form, and for the reader there is a need to understand the structure of form rather than the link between form to function and meaning. Eisenman’s article is targeted towards the architecture theorists, particularly those in the post-modernism and post-structuralism, who would like to explore formal structuralism.
The model used to develop House I was necessary to represent Eisenman’s ideas about the building. In order to understand the structure of form, the model is created to conceptualize the final product. Eisenman reiterates that the marking process in the formal structures shows that it is not easy to determine the structural functions by simply looking at the columns and beams. The m...