Fall 2016 Baumer Lecture Series: Peter Eisenman

Peter Eisenman will take part in a panel conversation with Matt Ford and Jeff Kipnis at the Knowlton Hall Big Stairs at 2 p.m. on Friday, September 30, 2016. The presentation is free and open to the public. Eisenman is an internationally recognized architect and educator. The principal of Eisenman Architects, he has designed large-scale housing and urban design projects, innovative facilities for educational institutions and a series of inventive private houses. His current projects include the six-building City of Culture of Galicia in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, and a large condominium housing block in Milan, Italy. The first major public building designed by Eisenman was Ohio State's Wexner Center for the Arts.

Eisenman is the Charles Gwathmey Professor in Practice at the Yale University School of Architecture, and has taught at Cambridge University, Harvard University, Princeton University, The Ohio State University and The Cooper Union. His many books include Eisenman: Inside Out, Selected Writings 1963–1988; Written into the Void, Selected Writings 1990–2004;Tracing Eisenman; and Giuseppe Terragni: Transformations, Decompositions, Critiques. From 1967 to 1982 he was the director of the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies in New York City, which he founded.

Eisenman received a Bachelor of Architecture Degree from Cornell, a Master of Architecture Degree from Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Cambridge. He received an honorary degree from the Syracuse University School of Architecture in 2007.