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Politics and Architecture
The Marxist Tradition
As we saw in Chapter 4 the inspiration for
the structuralist method was the search for the deeper forces that affect our
understanding. According to Lévi-Strauss, the great propagandist of structuralist ideas, his
particular motivation grew from three distinctly different sources – the
disciplines of geology, Marx... more ...
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page168from Building Ideas
and,
with that, the bracketing off of the individual subject, in favour of a notion
of an intersubjective architectural system of signification that, like
language, pre-dates any individual and is much less his or her product than he
or she is the product of it.25
Hence
the difficulty for the outsider in interpreting Eisenman’s code, as the
language is inevitably internal to the discipline. By the same token, as the
philosopher Andrew Benjamin has pointed out,26 this notion of pre-existi... more ...
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page167from Building Ideas
at New Harmony and the High Museum in
Atlanta. While these later works dealt with movement and the idea of the “architectural
promenade” they held back from a truly rigorous engagement with the disciplines
of syntactic structures. Eisenman, on the other hand, makes explicit use of
these ideas, such as in the complex formal systems and transformations in “House
VI”. The basic principle in Eisenman’s work is similar to that seen with
Hertzberger, where the meaning of the form is initially somewhat arbitrary, but
while in Hertzberger’s case significance arises out of use-patterns, in
Eisenman’s work it is even more elusive. Where “meaning follows function” in
Hertzberger’s buildings, “function follows form” with Eisenman. As he writes of
it... more ...
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page166from Building Ideas
19 Richard Meier – High Museum of Art,
Atlanta, 1980-83: Interior circulation (Jonathan Hale)
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