The Eisenman Digest: Peter Eisenman talks about computers, architecture students, and his ‘6-point plan’

Links, Image and Text from BDonline and Archinect

Peter Eisenman, the American architect known as one of the New York Five, and famously responsible for the hotly debated projects of the Wexner Centre and House IV, has broken his silence on the subject of computers and their effect on Architecture and architectural education. BDonline and Archinect report.

BDOnline:

Have computers damaged architects’ design quality?

Yes, as students lose drawing skills and the feel for a building, says Peter Eisenmann; No, look at the concepts they open architects’ minds to, says Neil Spiller

Peter Eisenman used the platform at RIAS 2008 to bemoan a culture of passivity among students of architecture

Archinect:

Eisenman’s six point plan Peter Eisenman set out his thoughts on architecture at RIAS 2008

1. Architecture in a media culture
2. Students have become passive
3. Computers make design standards poorer
4. Today’s buildings lack meaning or reference
5. We are in a period of late style
6. To be an architect is a social act

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