Peter Eisenman

Fragments of the many practices of American architect Peter Eisenman are seen in Barefoot on White-Hot Walls, published in conjunction with the exhibition at the Mak, Vienna. This volume gathers critical texts by Eisenman and other authors, including Mark Wigley and Emmanuel Petit, ample project illustrations from Elseman’s entire career, including the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin, and the City of Culture of Gallicia in Santiago de Compostela, as well as documentation of the exhibtion installation itself. Both the catalogue and the exhibition are collections of autonomous fragments of different moments in Eisenman’s varied practice as an architect, including design projects since the 1970s, building analyses, lecture excerpts, biographical information, and critical writings. It is as much a retropective of nearly 40 years of Eisenman’s work as it is a document that considers the contemporary relevance of some of his key architectural concepts.