Diagrams

PETER EISENMAN
AND DIAGRAMS
What are diagrams?
Historical context of diagrams
Diagrams and architecture
Architects who use diagrammatic technique
Introduction to Peter Eisenman
CONTENTS
Peter Eisenman and diagrams
Diagram analogy, method adoption and practice
Selected works
What are diagrams?
Diagram is a chart, graph, drawing or figure

produced by graphic means & serves to
explain & communicate facts-information of a
particular case
The property of information economy is the

bottom value of diagrams for almost all
disciplines
The word diagrams is derived from the word

diagnosis
Historical context of diagrams
We express, record, events-memories and happenings

around.
Initially we scribbled in stones; To make it permanent we

incorporated carving technique which has a three
dimensional profile.
With the invention of color, stone painting we expressed

natural forms, human actions, material, life styles
After invention of paper, sketching style developed; which

showed quality and intensity of light in sketches creating
three-dimensional effects
Diagrams and Architecture
Sketch - Is mainly about spatial form
A perspective sketch provides three-dimensional

information about a scene, specifying the shape of
physical elements and their spatial relationships. A plan or
elevation sketch may be concerned with the proportions of
a building or its components. Although a sketch falls short
of precisely specifying dimensions and shapes, it provides
more shape and dimension information than a diagram.
Schematic drawing
It uses conventional symbols to represent building

components and, typically drawn free hand the schematic
drawing retains the spatial feel of a sketch, drawn to
scale, it is more complex and precise than a diagram, yet
it does not attempt the accuracy and precision of a
working drawing.
Bubble diagram
A Bubble diagram represents functional spaces in a

floor plan with rough sizes, adjacencies, containment
and connections.
Design Diagram
A Design Diagrams can be spatial, showing the relative

positions and approximate sizes of rooms, or it can be
non-spatial, showing a sequence of building construction.
Architects who use diagrams
as a design-tool
Peter Eisenman
Ben van berkel
Greg lynn
Rem koolhaas
Kazuo sejima
Peter Eisenman
A Eisenman began his career as an architect. From the

thesis in 1963 up until about 1980, Eisenman, was involved
both with the professional world of architecture and with
teaching.
In 1980 he decided to focus more on his buildings and
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opened his professional practice: Eisenman architects.
Since 1980, he has been involved in a number of large
projects, from housing complexes in Berlin to high profile
office buildings in Tokyo.
Eisenman, while focusing more on building and his
professional practice, still remains a highly theoretical
architect.
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In 1999 he published the book Diagram Diaries
which is both a summary of his works to date as well as
an involved theoretical reflection on that work.
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Diagram Diaries
The condition of look alike is critical issue in the

anteriority of architecture, structural parameters gradually
evolved out of Greek, roman, and gothic architecture, so
what was perceived as structural had to look structural to
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the eye of the beholder as the subject came into
consciousness in the fifteenth century. This need
introduced an idea of looking-in-the present. This
produced a condition in representation, an expectancy,
which can be called normal.
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Anteriority of architecture
Project governed by external forces such as site &
scientific progress
Interiority of architecture
Project governed by internal forces of shape and
forms.
Previously, formal diagrams rarely discussed linearity
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or relationships in space and time. When they dealt with
form as well as functions, such diagrams became reductive
geometric abstractions, ignoring such things as the critical
thickness of walls and their possible effects as notations in
space.
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Selected works
Project Profile :
House Vl
Design / Competition -
1972/1975
Cornwall, Connecticut
Mr. & Mrs. Richard
Frank
2000 square Feet
wood frame
exterior: Painted wood
panels
Interiors: painted wall
boards.
This weekend house on a small
rural site in north-western
Connecticut provides the
ownersa photographer and his
wifewith a sensuous and playful
environment, full of continuously
changing light, shadows, color,
and textures. The house is a
studio landscape, providing an
abstract background for the
photography of still life and
people. In doing so, the house
and its occupants become part of
a series of daily living portraits.

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PETER EISENMAN

Historical context of diagrams

Diagrams and architecture

Architects who use diagrammatic technique

Introduction to Peter Eisenman

Diagram analogy, method adoption and practice

Diagram is a chart, graph, drawing or figure

The property of information economy is the

The word diagrams is derived from the word

We express, record, events-memories and happenings

Initially we scribbled in stones; To make it permanent we

With the invention of color, stone painting we expressed

After invention of paper, sketching style developed; which

Sketch - Is mainly about spatial form

A perspective sketch provides three-dimensional

It uses conventional symbols to represent building

A Bubble diagram represents functional spaces in a

A Design Diagrams can be spatial, showing the relative

Ben van berkel

A Eisenman began his career as an architect. From the

In 1980 he decided to focus more on his buildings and

The condition of look alike is critical issue in the

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