El tiempo transgresor. Formalismo y agitación en Eisenman Transgressive Time. Formalism and Agitation in Eisenman

Resumen

The paper proposes a trip around seven transgressions that American architect Peter Eisenman developed during the 60s and 70s. At one side one could study his doctoral dissertation, where he defines the dimension of time and formalism as the main architectural strategy. Colin Rowe’s use of diagram as an analytical tool will be transformed into a morphogenetic tool in the hands of Eisenman. Time and not the space, function or construction will achieve an inedited role as an active matter. On the other side, with the creation of the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies (IAUS), he will oppose to the status quo of American academy. The intense program of the IAUS will generate an alternative architectural center where one could find emergent figures such as Bernard Tschumi or Rem Koolhaas. In the epilogue the text will jump foward to 1988, year in which begins to develop the revolutionary digitization of time.