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23 Peter Eisenman – House Six,
Axonometrics, 1976. (Peter Eisenman)
beds in order to preserve the formal
integrity of the concept. This is obviously a somewhat indulgent piece of
planning, which later fell victim to the owners’ alterations, but the columns
that occurred in the middle of the dining area also suggested new patterns of
habitation. As Eisenman himself wrote, in House of Cards:
The
design process of this house, as with all the architectural work in this book,
intended to move the act of architecture from its complacent relationship with
the metaphysic of architecture, by reactivating its capacity to dislocate;
thereby extending the search into the possibilities of occupiable form.19
This
kind of questioning of the accumulated traditions enshrined in the institution
of dwelling is a theme that the philosopher Andrew
19 Peter Eisenman, House of Cards, Oxford
University Press, New York, 1987, p 169.
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