Faculty Profile

Peter Eisenman is an internationally recognized architect and educator whose award-winning large-scale housing and urban design projects, innovative facilities for educational institutions, and series of inventive private houses attest to a career of excellence in design. Among the critically acclaimed projects are the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin, the Koizumi Sangyo Headquarters in Tokyo, and the Wexner Center for the Visual Arts and Fine Arts Library in Ohio. Presently Eisenman Architects is completing the City of Culture of Galicia in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, and working on a railroad station in Pompei.

Eisenman holds a B.Arch. from Cornell, a M.S. in architecture from Columbia University, and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Cambridge University (UK). He holds three honorary doctorates of fine arts, from the University of Illinois, Chicago, the Pratt Institute in New York, and Syracuse University. He is also a Frank H.T. Rhodes Class of 1956 Professor at Cornell.

• ARCH 4101 / 4102 / 5101 / 5116 / 7912 Option Studio: Theory

• Written into the Void: Selected Writings, 1990-2004 (2007)
• Tracing Eisenman (2006)
• The Formal Basis of Modern Architecture (2006