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Albert Hofstadter and Richard Kuhns,
Philosophies of Art and Beauty: Selected Readings in Aesthetics From Plato to
Heidegger, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1964.
Richard Kearney, “Jacques Derrida”, in
Modern Movements in European Philosophy, Manchester University Press,
Manchester, 1986, pp 113-33.
Christopher Norris, Deconstruction: Theory
and Practice, Routledge, London, 1991.
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plurality
of possibilities that can no longer be foreclosed by function, by teleology or
the aesthetics of form.20
This
project is therefore a clear example of the notion touched on earlier, that
architectural ideas exist at many different levels – in drawings, writings and
models and not merely in completed buildings. The fact that some of these ideas
have been obscured through the changes to the building during its life should
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Benjamin picks up on, in relation to
deconstruction in philosophy. Rather than assume that this kind of criticism
can only be carried out in conceptual terms, Eisenman’s building actually
“enacts” this process, according to Benjamin, in the very medium it is
attempting to criticize. This deliberate blurring of disciplinary categories
between the theory and practice of a “critical” architecture is something that
Derrida has also set out to demonstrate, between philosophy and the language of
literature. As Benjamin writes, describing the context in which this kind of
building should be understood:
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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:
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